Romance Weekly - Short Stories of Love, Erotic and Paranormal Thrillers

The heat breaks every record, four counties on one failing wire, and somewhere a person like the woman Wren used to be is signing off on shedding the weakest zones. August is dying slow, taking the regional overload alone, and he asks her to let him be the one who pays. She refuses — because she finally sees that his fifteen years of martyrdom are her own disappearing act in a mirror: she hides by spreading the blame thin, he hides by swallowing all of it. So the deal isn't his sacrifice. It's that neither of them gets to vanish. In a four-county blackout they close the loop deliberately, and when he tries to spend himself empty she holds both ends and makes him take it back — the circuit running both ways, the overload grounded safe into the earth. The county holds. Nobody pays but them, and they chose it. The loop doesn't open again; they're fused, for good. It isn't cured. Every summer they'll do this again. But she stays in the room now — and so does he.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Wren drives back to the dark edge of town, and August stops pretending — he cut his own lines years ago and stranded himself so the cost falls only on him, and he says it with a pride she clocks but can't name yet. The data won't square: the drain leaks from the live grid toward his dead wire, like something out there is swallowing power. So she finds the loophole — wait for the nightly blackout, and take what they want when the lights are already gone and nobody pays extra for the dark. It works. In a total blackout they finally close the gap, and the current pours out of him into her like she's the ground he's never had, the dead acre lighting up around them. She thinks she's solved it. The next night, he's twelve miles away on a cut line, and the lights go out anyway.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Elise's apartment has become a greenhouse, and she's running out of time. Roman arrives to help, and what he teaches her isn't about control—it's about surrender. The magic isn't a curse; it's her. The part she was told was too much, finally demanding to exist.As they work together, Elise starts to remember: the childhood garden her mother paved over, the years of shrinking herself to fit, the grief she's been carrying without knowing its name.When she finally breaks down, flowers bloom from her skin—and Roman doesn't flinch. For the first time in thirty years, someone sees all of her and doesn't look away.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Mira returns to the station with a question she's spent two days trying to answer: can she actually want someone? Not save them, not redeem herself—want them, as a person, in her life? When the frequencies align for the final time, she tells Ethan the truth: she doesn't know if she's capable of real connection. But she knows she wants to find out. She knows the thought of losing him feels like losing something she didn't know she needed. He tells her about Cass—not the tragedy, but the person. And somewhere in the listening, somewhere in the being present, the loop finally breaks. He arrives in 2024 grieving everything he's missed. She holds him without trying to fix it. And in the weeks that follow, two people who've never known how to be real with anyone learn to make new mistakes—together.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Mira and Ethan develop an impossible communication—audio messages sent across thirty-seven years, asynchronous and strange. As their conversations deepen, she learns about his sister Cass, whose death led him to the transmitter that became his prison. He learns about the woman behind the performance—defended, detached, and more alone than she's ever admitted. But when Mira investigates her own podcast archives, she discovers a devastating pattern. Every genuine supernatural experience she's documented radiates from a single point: the station, the loop, Ethan himself. Her entire career—the success, the reputation, the "gift" for finding real stories—has been built on his suffering. She's not just his anchor. She's his parasite. And she doesn't know if the woman she was a week ago would have cared.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

June remembers the crash—the ice, the impact, the moment she stopped being alive. And now she and Theo stand at mile marker 23, waiting for 11:47 PM, when the loop either breaks or binds them forever.To escape, June has to stop running from death. But after one day of actually living—the ocean, the road trip, a man who's loved her for seven years—she doesn't want to let go. She wants to hold on.This time, when the crash happens, she has a reason to survive. And when she wakes up in a hospital on February 3rd, she discovers that sometimes holding on is exactly the right choice.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The polar vortex breaks, and Callum fades—disappearing in the middle of a confession that shakes Vera to her core. She's been the lost soul all along. Frozen for five years at the threshold of a grief she refused to feel.Alone for the first time since they met, Vera finally does what she's been avoiding: she goes to a bridge, and she grieves. Really grieves. The ugly, broken, thawing kind. And in the breaking open, something else breaks free. Callum returns—not as a winter walker, but as something new. His task is complete. The last lost soul has been guided home. And for the first time in 180 years, he's free to live.Together, they step into February. Into a future neither of them expected. Into whatever comes next.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The temperature rises, and Callum fades—leaving Vera alone with questions and the slow ache of anticipatory grief. She spends days researching winter walkers, learning about the spirits who've disappeared as the world has warmed.When the cold returns, so does Callum—with another lost soul who needs their help. Delia is a college student frozen in place, unable to remember how to live. Callum can warm the room, but only Vera can reach her with words.As they guide Delia back from the edge, Callum reveals what it cost him to watch his daughter live an entire life he couldn't share. And with a polar vortex approaching, he asks Vera for the only thing he's ever wanted: someone to walk beside him while he still can.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com