Eugenie Carabatsos

Episodes 1-4 of Fictional Podcast
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The world is drowning. Sea levels have risen so high that people are walking through water just to get to work and live their daily lives. Those living in poorer areas have it worse—they must wade or even swim. The only people who live on dry land are the very rich, but even they may not be able to escape what’s coming: the Big Wave. When it comes, life as humanity knows it will cease to exist. It will be the end for some, but there’s some hope for those lucky enough: 1) they can catch one of the Endeavor spaceships orbiting the earth or 2) they can get gill surgery. That’s right. Scientists have invented a surgery that allows people to breathe underwater. But this surgery is expensive, in some cases dangerous, and not available to all.

Two sisters install a pipeline system for the family sugaring farm and discover secret messages etched into the trees. 

An expecting couple creates a haunted house for Halloween. Little do they know that they've already been living with ghosts. Will the couples finally see each other? Boo knows but it's bound to be the most memorable Halloween yet.

Non-athletic younger siblings of star high school athletes seek refuge under the bleachers in the hopes of having a moment to be their true selves.

A group of high schoolers are ostracized to an allergen free lunch table. Is it a sanctuary or a hellspace? Friendships are tested, alliances are threatened, crushes are outed, and allergy shots are... a possibility?

Two high school ballet dancers meet to work on their synchronicity on and off the stage.

A female Iraq war veteran starts to suspect her neighbor is plotting a terrorist attack.

After the death of her husband, Rain moves in with her estranged son, whose recent religious conversion has brought on major life changes, including fostering two teenagers. Isolated from her family, Rain finds connection and intimacy with the strangers she interacts with while phone-banking for her preferred presidential candidate.

Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has arrived with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime--killing an elderly woman with an axe--and is nowhere to be found. The women try to piece together how this happened, while also uncovering their own dark desires and the fear that they will one day turn out like him.

The Riverview B&B hasn't seen a guest in ages. When one finally arrives, the inhabitants' lives are thrown into a tailspin as they try to figure out who she is, why she’s there, and what she's doing walking through the rubble from a burned down building across the street.

Somewhere in eternity, a Woman has willed her very own palace into existence. Her world is turned upside-down when a guest suddenly appears, and they are forced to live together as their palace starts to shrink.

Colin’s been dead for the past five years, yet he still lives in his childhood home. When his ex-fiancée brings a new man to meet the family, Colin plans to sabotage the relationship only to find that his presence may not be so invisible after all.

Maggie has to take her beloved car to be junked. En route, she’s visited by the memories of the defining moments of her life. Her car has witnessed love and heartbreak, rejected bad boyfriends, held her in times of great trauma, participated in the creation and destruction of relationships, and maybe, just maybe, it will help her out one last time.

Helen and Charlie relive the tragic events of their friends' deaths. In an attempt to figure out what happened and why, they unintentionally reevaluate their own changing relationship.

Fredi and Martin have been thrown into a closet to play seven minutes in heaven, but Fredi has more important things on her mind, like science, presidential campaigns, and vegetarianism. Meanwhile, Martin's trying his best not to picture Fredi as a skeleton.

Beth and Kat haven't seen each other since middle school. Now that they are both in New York City, they have decided to reconnect. Each looks to the other for that which they have been missing--home, partnership, and the intimacy of childhood friends.

Stan and Stella are two midsized stars, living a midsized life. They question their purpose in the universe, as well as their strained relationship.

Ally and Ben are driving across the country after the death of their mother. Their relationship has gone off course—will their GPS be able to help them find their way?

Benjamin and Bernadette, a dynamic duo of rag dolls, have been placed in a box. They don't know how long they've been there, or if they will ever be released, and it's starting to drive them crazy.

An imaginary friend, Marshmallow, has been separated from his real friend for years. Tragedy, and help from a fellow abandoned imaginary friend, will bring them together again for one last time.

Woman and Man have been rowing on an endless sea, alone, forever. One of them wants to stop.

Fiona has just completed her lifelong dream of starring as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, but because of the pandemic, the production was over zoom and the internet cut out, rendering her solo mute. Her best friend, Joanne, comes over for a socially distant cheer up session. Together they unearth the struggles and loneliness of their diverging lives, and do their best to find intimacy in an increasingly alienating world.

Fiona has just completed her lifelong dream of starring as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, but because of the pandemic, the production was over zoom and the internet cut out, rendering her solo mute. Her best friend, Joanne, comes over for a socially distant cheer up session. Together they unearth the struggles and loneliness of their diverging lives, and do their best to find intimacy in an increasingly alienating world.