The Stories Inspiring Us
Here you'll find the stories the books, films, television shows, and fiction podcasts that inspire us! These are tales that are either magical, melanated, romantic, hilarious, have themes of friendship, family, growth or all of the above! This page is also an archive and way station. There are links to listen to each podcast, and purchase each book. The films and television shows all have their screenplays attached for you to download free of charge. While you wait to enter The Vesperse, fall in love with the stories that made it possible.
Books
The Bright Sessions (Podcast)
The Bright Sessions is a science fiction podcast that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a unique supernatural ability. The show documents their struggles and discoveries as well as the motivations of their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright.
The Horror Of Dolores Roach (Podcast)
A macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. After sixteen years in prison, the indomitable Dolores Roach returns to a New York City neighborhood that has changed drastically in her absence. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, Dolores is recognized only by an old stoner friend, Luis, who gives Dolores room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement apartment under his dilapidated empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands Dolores” is driven to extremes to survive.
Television
Films
Look Up (Podcast)
Two young men meet on a beach every night with a telescope and the unanswered questions from years of a friendship lost as they await their parent’s return from a mission to Mars. As re-entry draws closer...so do they.