Three hundred years after the fall of the old world, the survivors live not in cities… but inside their skeletons.
High above the vine-choked ruins of what once was Manhattan, the Stone Tree Clan endures among the rooftops guided by firelight, memory, and the stories passed down since the first flames were lit. Stories that remind them of the sins that burned the world… and of the one law that has kept them alive:
Stay close to the flame.
Remember the stories.
Never go into The Down Dark.
But rules can’t hold forever.
The Down Dark is a haunting tale of survival, silence, and the weight of tradition in a world built on ashes. A cinematic story told in the rhythm of oral myth, kept alive through fearing the shadows of the past.
From Dust and Echoes, this is James Cawley’s The Down Dark
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DEAD MEMORIES
Some places will never let you go.
Jeff Bauer thought he escaped his hometown of Burley, Idaho. He traded wheat fields for Hollywood lights, childhood ghosts for film scores and awards. But a phone call from an old childhood friend drags him back into the nightmare that he thought he'd escaped.Â
Developers are unearthing the farmland where two kids once hid things that they hoped would always stay buried. Now, Jeff must confront the dungeon once again....the town he fled, the boyhood pact he broke, and secrets the Idaho soil refuses to keep.
In Burley, silence is currency, memory is a trap, and loyalty can cost more than blood.
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THE SKY WE CARRIED
Long before covered wagons creaked across endless sagebrush and steam locomotives chased the horizon...something ancient arrived from the cold stillness between distant galaxies, and it buried itself deep into the red clay of Shoshone land. And there, it waited for the old man and the girl.Â
Generations later, Dzoon awakens it. The visions it brings are unlike anything he’s ever known...not memories, but omens. Fire. Ruin. A ghostly old woman.
A warning...
A fragile thread of hope that his people might survive a new darkness rising in the East. Dzoon and Shaya must take a stand to keep the ember of their people alive and protected, before everything is buried behind the coming silence.
This is a story about ghosts trapped within the walls of our history.
About language, land, and the choice between forgetting the spark of who we really are...or lighting the fire inside ourselves, fighting to preserve the flame to wait out the night.
Told in a cinematic, audio-book style by the author and host of Dust and Echoes, James Cawley.Â
The Sky We Carried blends myth, ancestry, and prophecy into a story that refuses to be forgotten.
More stories and peek at what's coming next at:Â
https://www.dustandechoespodcast.com
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Trailer: Introducing Dust and Echoes
Dust & Echoes is a fiction podcast blending horror, mystery, adventure and suspense in original short story form. Each episode is a cinematic, immersive experience drawing you into tales of the strange, the forgotten, and the haunted parts of being human.
Written and performed by author James Cawley, Dust & Echoes delivers a modern campfire experience, one story at a time.
Unheard. Unpublished. Until now.Â
New episodes every Tuesday. Each one a new original story.Â
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THE BERMUDA MERIDIAN
When neurosurgeon Garrett Goodwin boards the Celestia Maris with his family, he’s looking for quiet. But in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, the ocean gives him something else: silence. The kind that feels… alive and watching. As strange orbs appear on the horizon and a boy in the ship’s medical wing whispers in someone else’s voice, Garrett is drawn into a nightmare of reality that science can't explain.
The Bermuda Meridian is a psychological thriller that blends cosmic horror with intimate human dread, taking you deep into the terrifying unknown...and into the parts of ourselves we pretend don’t exist.
If you are a fan of strange and mysterious hand-crafted original tales...well, we are in good company together because that is what the Dust and Echoes Podcast is all about. Original stories from the mind of award-winning filmmaker and writer James Cawley. Unique tales of dread, mystery & the things that scratch at your door just after midnight.
Dust and Echoes is not just a podcast. It is a growing collection of original cinematic stories, immersive, and unforgettable that explore the strange, the dark, and the unknown. Each episode is a short-form audiobook told with the emotional depth of a cinematic experience. Some stories frighten. Some disturb. Some provoke. But every one of them lingers, because they come from a place deeper than fear.
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