Long Story Short Productions
19 episodes listed below
Magic, badly hidden and deeply personal.
Unseen turns modern fantasy into intimate monologue, where magic arrives through work, awkward crushes, strange shops, and practical embarrassment. Its stories favor identity and connection over lore dumps, with wonder kept close to ordinary life.
PRESS PLAY
Unseen is urban fantasy audio fiction built around the gap between existing and being recognized. Its magical world is not introduced with trumpets. It shows up in packages by the door, impossible books behind a counter, a call that makes fae features look ordinary, and someone trying to explain the mechanics of power with a ridiculous analogy because apparently that is the only way through. The show is funny, but not weightless. Its characters talk quickly, correct themselves, stall, joke, and then suddenly admit the thing that has been sitting under the whole story. One episode follows the hunger to understand magic after first seeing a hidden side of the world, only to run into the hard, boring, humiliating rhythm of starting and stopping. Another turns attraction into a question of visibility: if someone loves a version of a person shaped by the call, do they know the person at all? That is where Unseen is sharpest. It makes fantasy social. Magic changes faces, jobs, dates, friendships, and the private math of how much of oneself can safely be shown. The show also has a lively relationship with explanation. Lore rarely floats above the story; it gets argued into shape by people with opinions, impatience, and their own emotional damage. The result feels lived-in rather than ornamental. There are grand ideas here, including identity, personhood, secrecy, belonging, and the cost of passing unnoticed. There are also jokes, crushes, awkward notes, magical customer service problems, and the kind of self-interrogation that turns a simple story into a confession. Unseen works best for listeners who like fiction podcasts where the supernatural is real, but the most dangerous spell may still be wanting someone to see the truth and stay.
Made for: For listeners who like fantasy audio fiction with intimate monologues, dry humor, romantic longing, and emotional stakes tucked inside practical magical problems. It especially fits audio drama fans who prefer character voice over epic spectacle.
What sets it apart: Unseen makes the uncanny feel inconvenient, funny, and emotionally specific instead of grand or distant. Its strongest moments turn fantasy exposition into arguments, crushes, work problems, and private questions about being seen.
UNSEEN is the new urban fantasy audio fiction podcast by Long Story Short Productions. The premise behind it is simple: in a world where magic is real but invisible to almost everyone, for the few magical beings that exist every day is a struggle just to be seen. Season one of UNSEEN will feature ten different stories of identity, connection, and personhood (and, of course, magic) in the modern world. Some of them will be thrilling adventures. Others may be sad and melancholic. Some may be creepy and unsettling. Each of them will feature a single performer, guiding the audience th...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Unseen turns concealed magic into intimate stories about ambition, attraction, identity, and the risk of letting another person see clearly.
Unseen makes hidden magic feel less like spectacle than a pressure placed on ordinary emotional life. Its self-contained first-person stories move among people who can see impossible things, struggle to perform magic, or conceal fae traits from someone they love.
A crush's note in the credit-card box becomes a test of whether she can truly see you.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An irreverent, argument-driven retelling of the rise of Christianity that keeps its human stakes front and center.
Unseen's feed drop for Almalem takes on the rise of Christianity in first century Jerusalem with a dry, argumentative edge. It is at its best when belief turns into bargaining and practical objections, which gives the piece a comic snap without flattening the stakes.
A fae crush story where the magic stays awkward, personal, and painfully human.
The Secret Ingredient is a crush story with fae rules getting in the way at every turn. It opens in that sleepy workday register, then slides into Taylor, the glass-in-the-hair mess, and the half-flirting that keeps getting interrupted by messages, hesitations, and the call.
Magic here is less grand design than bad judgment, deadpan explanation, and a clown museum.
Unseen keeps turning magic into something rude, lived-in, and a little unhinged. It keeps circling back through corrections, false starts, and deadpan over-explaining, and the clown museum image does real work instead of just hanging there for color.
A fantasy story that finds its magic in ordinary work, longing, and persistence.
Episode 1 follows a narrator who can see magic but still cannot turn that gift into practice, and that gap gives the story its shape. The episode works best when magic feels like ordinary labor: books borrowed from Mr.
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
This episode is a promotional trailer for Hit Singles, a new audio fiction romantic comedy produced by Gabriella Urbina, Sarah Shackett, and Zach Valenti — the team behind the Unseen audio drama.
Sarah Shackett admits Unseen went quiet after 2021.
Unseen’s “Midsummer Special: Midsummer, Highland Falls” follows Janie Linwood as she recounts her marriage to Tom and his disappearance from West Bay Lake.
Packages by the door kick off the trouble.
Magic has terrible judgment.
Magic starts as a practical problem.