93.2 The Artifice

The Artifice


'A struggling artist from a renowned family, tries to overcome his creative block by illegally enhancing his AI printer, SARA, into a sophisticated art-making machine.'


Written and narrated by Luke Kondor (https://www.instagram.com/lukeofkondor)

Produced by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Chris Zabriskie (https://chriszabriskie.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Joshua Boucher for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington, the Quantum Quill, his content transcending the limits of any one social media platform.


Luke Kondor started writing on his computer in his early teens and never looked back… and now he has very sore eyes. He also runs and produces a short story podcast called The Other Stories, which has amassed over 11-million downloads and has a monthly listenership of ~100k downloads.

Currently he lives and works on a dining room table in the middle of Sherwood Forest. For more head to www.lukekondor.com


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