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 Unpublished.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. New episodes every Tuesday.  Each one a new original story. ------------ See what's

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

He took the deckhand job with no experience and no questions asked. Just a one-way ticket to somewhere quiet. A chance to disappear.After years of bad choices and time served, Joey’s ready to leave everything he broke behind. But the further the small fishing boat he gets from land, the more dread builds inside Joey's mind. What begins as a quiet escape drifts, in thick fog, into darker waters. And as the isolation deepens, Joey starts to suspect this boat was never headed where they

In a remote desert canyon lost to time, a weathered archaeologist uncovers the final thread of a mystery he’s chased his entire life, a forgotten Indigenous city hidden beneath the stone. But when a mountain lion encounter leaves him broken, bleeding, and alone, survival becomes a brutal reckoning. Blending myth, memory, and a fire-lit confrontation with the past, Library in the Desert is a visceral tale about what we choose to remember… and what was never ours to claim in the first place.

Out in the wasteland, something still ticks, a briefcase unshackled from a dead chief’s wrist, armed with codes from the old world. Now, a Tribal sheriff must race through a post-apocalyptic Vegas to stop a warlord wearing a stolen face. This isn’t hope. This isn’t redemption. This is Humanity’s last stand, and it rests on the back of one man. The Fifth Number is an original story by James Cawley, host of the Dust and Echoes podcast. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend.  I'll have

The world ended with a sound. Low, strange, and final. Entire cities froze. The Silent remained: breathless, wide-eyed, deadly if you fall asleep. A gambler, a swimmer, a rock star, and a physicist race toward a rumored safe zone as the last signal counts down. But what they find isn’t safety, it’s the truth behind the end. The Silent is a gripping survival thriller where sleep isn’t rest, it’s a death sentence. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend.  I'll have another new original story for you