“Reality is only a backdrop that ultimately collapses.”
Step into Noir Fiction, short tales of the strange,
where we manipulate your mind... as we please.Listen... if you dare.
🎧 An original micro-fiction audio series.
Each episode lasts between 1 and 5 minutes.
Just enough time to tip your reality over the edge.
Story 4: Parasites
The glacial evaluation that calls our very existence into question.
After ten years of meticulous observation of our planet, a research director submits his clinical findings to his commander. The analysis of the human species is one of absolute scientific coldness: limited intelligence, self-destructive behavior, and a sickly need to possess useless goods.
To these supreme examiners from elsewhere, humans are nothing more than a parasite with no cosmic usefulness whatsoever. As the report closes and the fate of our 8 billion individuals hangs in the balance, a radical sentence is about to be pronounced...
Discover "Parasite," story number 4 in the Noir Fiction series, written and narrated by Denis Boucher. A psychological, disturbing audio immersion that will make you look at the sky in a whole new way.
Music credit: Alex Morgan via Pixabay. Royalty-free license.
Story 3: The Tomb of the Mind
What happens when science buries you alive in your own mind?
You take your seat in a hibernation pod for a long space journey. The doctor leans over you, smiles, and promises you a simple night's sleep. The machines activate, your heart rate slows, and the monitors confirm to the medical team that you are officially in a state of hibernation.
Except the machines are wrong. You are fully conscious, trapped inside a completely paralyzed body that refuses to cry out for help, as the technicians prepare to permanently seal your pod...
Discover "The Tomb of the Mind", story number 3 in the Noir Fiction series, written and narrated by Denis Boucher.
A short, psychological, and chilling audio experience. Put on your headphones, and hope you never wake up in that capsule.
Music: Alex Morgan via Pixabay. Royalty-free license.
Story 2: Imminent Death
The heart monitor stopped. His heart began beating again. But it was no longer him.
It was a beautiful summer day. A completely routine drive home after a day at work, with the comforting prospect of seeing his wife and daughter again. And then, in a fraction of a second, the terrifying sound of crumpling metal. Emptiness.
In this second story from Noir Fiction, titled Imminent Death, author Denis Boucher takes you where medicine ends: into that suspended instant between life and the beyond. You will float above a resuscitation table, watch the last-chance cardiac massage, and imagine the continuous whistle of the monitor announcing the end.
It is at that precise moment that the story shifts into the ineffable.
What this audio story demonstrates with remarkable psychological force is that death is not always a peaceful end.
Do not listen to this story if you fear questioning the nature of miracles. For everyone else, close your eyes, press play, and discover what truly hides behind the final heartbeat.
Music: Alex Morgan via Pixabay. Royalty-free license.
Story 1: Nocturnal Trap
At 3 a.m., the danger doesn’t come from your door. It comes from your nightstand.
You wake with a start. A lucid dream has only just ended. In the dark, your phone vibrates. You make the mistake of answering. On the other end of the line, a voice from beyond the grave whispers three words to you. Three words that will freeze your blood and plunge your night into pure horror.
What you are about to experience in exactly 90 seconds will forever change the way you answer the phone once the lights are out.
In this very first episode of Noir Fiction, titled Nocturnal Trap, author Denis Boucher uses the raw power of audio suggestion to lock you inside a room where the survival instinct becomes the most terrifying trap of all. You will hear the wood of the door crack. You will feel the panic of a trembling hand gripping a weapon. And you will witness an irreversible mistake.
A warning before pressing Play: Everyone who has listened admits the same thing: they now look at their phone screen with sudden suspicion before closing their eyes.
Do not stay in the dark. Put on your headphones, press play... and pray your phone doesn’t ring tonight.
Music: Alex Morgan via Pixabay. Royalty-free license.