The Boarders of Joy Street · Special Matters S01E04 · Continuing Superhero Audio Drama

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.

Who told the city where to look for a house that nobody can find? S01E04 of Special Matters, a continuing noir superhero audio drama from the Mono Noir Super Series. New here? Start with the pilot, S01E01, The Man in the Harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euQ1l6eKjg4
Previous: S01E03, The Woman Who Finds Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksejQYJ3eD4

Read the story and the full transcript: https://matezz.com/episodes/the-boarders-of-joy-street-special-matters-s01e04-continuing-superhero-audio-drama/

Beacon Hill, December 1950. Number fourteen Joy Street is the one house in Boston that nobody can find, kept by a landlady who has not stepped past her own front step in twelve years, and full of lodgers with gifts they never asked for: a woman who ages every time she mends something, a man who makes the sound go dead around him, twins who feel each other's pulse. Jonah, the man with no pulse who hears every heartbeat in a room, has lived there for three days. Nell Harrow, the policewoman at the basement desk for the cases nobody else will file, climbs the hill in the first heavy snow of the winter and is given the room next to his for the night. Then somebody tells the city where to look.

From the series Special Matters, the first of the Mono Noir Super Series: a continuing, episodic superhero audio drama in which the same characters return, grow and carry what happened into every new case. This is S01E04; the story continues in order. About forty-seven minutes, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design.

An original work of fiction. All names, characters and dialogue are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character, including the police, the city officials and the doctors, are invented for drama. Where a real city, neighborhood, street or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented, and no character in this story is a real person. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution.

Setting: Boston, December 1950 — Beacon Hill, in the first snow of the winter.

Chapters:
0:00 The First Snow
3:07 Supper in the Basement
7:26 The Parlour, Nine O'Clock
10:54 Sunday, Before Dawn
14:28 A Quarter to Six
17:17 Sunday, Half Past Six
20:12 Sunday, Eight O'Clock
23:58 Sunday, Half Past Eleven
28:35 The Front Door, Noon
32:48 The Dining Room, Three O'Clock
35:56 The Roof, Sunday Night
41:38 Monday, Seven O'Clock
44:55 The Kitchen, Monday

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