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Our Fair City

4.13 - Green Tidings

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We return to the newly discovered verdant “Eden,” outside the walls of the company, where Neal Henderson, Alison, and the rest of the crew of the downed rig Stormhawk work to survive without HartLife under the tutelage of Dora, amateur naturalist and window-washer.

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Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018.

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  • Dora— Lise “Kat” Evans
  • Neal Henderson— Sebastian H. Orr
  • Alison — Nina O’Keefe
  • Greyson— David Rheinstrom
  • Clear Skies Tim— Tyler Samples
  • Jack— Mark Soloff
  • Various Riggers— Tara Schile and Ryan Schile

Written by Stephanie Spence. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by David Rheinstrom and Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Dann Tincher. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Created by Clayton Faits.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life.

0:10.2

These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history.

0:15.6

So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.

0:24.6

Paradigms. And remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need. Paradise, dear listeners, is a difficult thing to define.

0:28.6

Is your Shangri-La a place where the air is always warm and blueberry algae bars grow from the trees?

0:35.6

Could your Arcadia be a place where mole people

0:39.7

periodically emerge from beneath your furniture

0:42.5

to give you cold drinks and then scuttle away?

0:47.3

No.

0:48.9

For corporate policy tells us

0:50.6

that an ideal happiness level is achieved

0:52.9

by forever meeting one's quota.

0:56.0

But outside of the city's walls, with no quota to meet and no manual to light the path

1:02.1

to happiness and productivity, who knows what false idols may lead a once loyal policy

1:08.9

to a mirage of satisfaction.

1:12.5

This is why, dear listeners, when our survivors out on the tundra

1:16.6

stumble upon a place of moderate warmth with lichens and the occasional leafy plant,

1:22.3

they falsely believed that this small patch of nature matched the criteria for paradise.

1:30.3

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, a shrubby sedge you cannot eat, but Willow shoots a tasty treat.

1:38.3

Oh, wow.

1:39.3

So that's what you...

1:40.3

Wish we'd had you around earlier.

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