Classic Short Science Fiction Stories · various

The Circuit Riders

·40 min·4 clips
Carrying beer and feeling like a million dollars, the old man sees the knife in his room and smiles.
In a futuristic Pittsburgh, police monitor a board that detects intense human emotions, potentially predicting crimes. The story follows both the officers tracking a persistent, worrying signal and an alcoholic old man whose deteriorating mental state is the source, culminating in a tense intervention at a school playground.

As heard by us

A city story where routine, strain, and quiet menace click into place.

This episode folds a hot Pittsburgh afternoon into a grim little city map, where an old man, a board of lights, and a late-night card game make appetite and damage feel close together.

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Why you'd press play

If you want a humid city tale where routine hides a larger dread.

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