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Our Fair City

4.19 - Neal Henderson

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The city waits with bated breath as Neal Henderson, the Sharp Chuter, descends to the Putrescible Waste Fields to provide the power necessary to jump start the Doctors’ Fusion Reactor. Can the actions of one man, no matter how mighty, make a difference in the monolithic tower of the HartLife corporation?

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  • Neal Henderson— Sebastian H Orr
  • Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin
  • Doctor Herbert West— Ryan Schile
  • Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman
  • Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred
  • The Switcher— Jared Latore
  • Alison Dalton— Nina O’Keefe

Written by Jim McDoniel. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Episode art by Cyrus Crashtest. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Production Management by Betsey Palmer. 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.

0:56.0

One of you transform waste of action. policies we are all of us only human however there are members of our community who are somehow more human than human. It seems almost as though there is more matter, more weight to the form and actions of these

1:02.0

supermen.

1:05.0

One such hero is Neil Henderson.

1:09.0

Now the sharpshooter, a man who shoveled the waist of five men,

1:14.0

holds the entire city on his muscled shoulders.

1:17.8

All of our hope depends on this single life,

1:22.1

being carefully strapped into a giant mechanical digging suit.

1:31.3

And the blue safety line goes into the red receiver here. And the indigo power valve goes into this

1:34.3

Chartreuse Junction here.

1:37.3

And this yellow thing,

1:39.3

he's leftover, I guess.

1:42.3

All right, Mr. Henderson, you're all strapped in. All it's left

1:45.5

is to turn you on. Are we sure that this metal get-up is gonna work? It's an exoskeleton,

1:53.6

and it should. According to Dr. Morrow, it's originally designed to dig the tunnels, but was never

1:58.0

actually produced because the actuary said it wasn't cost

2:01.5

effective. Yeah, well, digging ain't shoveling. That's why the super scooper has giant shovel hands

2:07.0

instead of giant drill hands. Super scooper? That's what I call it.

2:11.3

There we go.

2:20.3

Okay, try to move.

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