Episodes

  • Welcome to Loveless

    Welcome to Loveless
    Feb 6 2022
    Loveless Oregon by Elliot Matson about death, rebirth, prosperity and its pitfalls. Originally written as a short story collection, Matson recorded each one as a serialized Podcast. Each story takes place in the same building in the same town, across many years. The stories feature disparate characters and different situations linked by their geography and omnipresent supernatural forces. From a down-on-his-luck stranded traveling salesman in the 1970s to a duo of precocious Alsea Native children 700 years in the past, the stories are woven with delicate, whimsical attention to detail and acute sense of place. Welcome to Loveless. To learn more, go to elliotmatson.com/loveless
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    1 min
  • Story #1: Love Me Like That

    Story #1: Love Me Like That
    Feb 13 2022
    In 1964, struggling rockabilly musician Keith “Tex” Bartlett finds himself in Loveless, Oregon, performing at a sorry excuse for a music venue. Keith becomes stuck in a loop between maintaining his artistic integrity trying to write his sophomore album and selling out to write a Woodie Guthrie-esque advertisement for the Oregon Coast.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Story #2: Praying for Bad Days

    Story #2: Praying for Bad Days
    Feb 13 2022
    Two estranged sisters meet in a trendy, present-day Loveless café. Decades-old tensions reignite and secrets come to light as Cass, a blue-collar townie who never left, discusses the condition of their ailing mother with Val, a bougie NYC sophisticate who put Loveless in the rearview a long time ago.
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    35 mins
  • Story #3: Watcher

    Story #3: Watcher
    Feb 13 2022
    Things were going well for Aemon’s whale watching tours business five years ago—but not in 1988. Faced with a never-ending migratory dry spell in the wettest part of the country, the proprietor feels constantly trapped, down on his luck and ready to crack. Until a mysterious phone call instills a new purpose.
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    57 mins
  • Story #4: Appointments

    Story #4: Appointments
    Feb 13 2022
    Martha Gardenia’s consignment dress shop is thriving in mid-90s Loveless. But not for the reasons you might expect. Martha plays appointment Wack-a-Mole throughout her day, juggling an array of regular annoying customers and increasingly shady characters.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Story #5: Cold Roses

    Story #5: Cold Roses
    Feb 13 2022
    In the early 1950s, Maynard Clay agrees to let a Hollywood film crew shoot some of their noir detective feature in his struggling boutique hotel. As he witnesses the director, producer and crew mercilessly deconstruct the space and life he built with his late husband, Gavin, Maynard confronts feelings of his own identity and memories of Gavin’s mysterious disappearance.
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    47 mins
  • Story #6: Dermitt's Nuts

    Story #6: Dermitt's Nuts
    Feb 13 2022
    1970s traveling salesman Dermitt M. Downs has an inventory problem. In order to get out of Loveless, Oregon, he needs gas in his car, and in order to buy gas he needs to sell his trunkful of Carlotti’s Ceramic Ice Cream Cones. However, the only viable customers are the uninterested elderly owners of the town’s taffy and ice cream shop. Dermitt’s overwhelming positivity, he hopes, is his secret to success.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Story #7: Before It Gets Dark

    Story #7: Before It Gets Dark
    Feb 13 2022
    Candice Kane (@yesyoucandice) works in a trendy Loveless coffee shop by day and dreams of becoming an influencer by night—and most of the day. Having left collegiate opportunity, her Iowa home and family behind, she’s determined to make it out in the Pacific Wonderland, where self-doubt and loneliness are routinely laid on thicker than a caramel shot in an artisanal brew.
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    42 mins