When Everything Cracks
Narrated Nonfiction Drama Series
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When Everything Cracks is a Mental Health Memoir, told in first-person, present-tense. This serial podcast is read by the author. It follows the thought process of a healthy mind disintegrating into chaos, then slowly rebuilding itself on the ashes of its former self.
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01 – Hoboes, Junkies, and Witches – When Everything Cracks
Intro to Series "When Everything Cracks" is a mental health memoir set in Old San Francisco. Duncan MacLeod, the author, reads his manuscript. Be prepared for a strange trip, as the narrator grows unreliable during a psychotic episode lasting several months. Chapter One Meet Duncan MacLeod, a nineteen-year-old gay man living in 1980s San Francisco. He's broke and hungry and just lost his job at the Stud Bar. After a chance meeting with a rail-riding hobo and visiting a witch's dingbat apartment for a seance, the seeds of his undoing are planted.