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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

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  • @RoweLit
    @RoweLit  Місяць тому +14

    Part I of this story "Some Other Place" can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/4L8wtaSAF2E/v-deo.html
    Or catch up on the whole series from the beginning: ua-cam.com/play/PLWl-Jc_I2wPAsngY7MCID9sS_98Y2siT5.html&feature=shared
    Thanks for listening 🙏😃🚀

    • @paulross225
      @paulross225 Місяць тому +2

      Thanks for your latest offering!
      Great stuff! I don't think any other superlatives from me would be necessary after all this time - as a regular member of your audience, we all know why we're here!👂👏😊😊😊🤓

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      @@paulross225 Thanks, Paul! So glad you are 😃

    • @barbaranestor1997
      @barbaranestor1997 Місяць тому

      So you're saying that after your next stories will be on another platform? Will your stories be accessed from your website? ( I'm not very "techy " aka old)

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +4

      @@barbaranestor1997 No! Sorry, Barbara. This confusion is only one of the many frustrations I have with UA-cam Podcasts. I know it's confusing. There is UA-cam (here), but they also had Google Podcasts. They decided to merge Google Podcasts with UA-cam, which in theory would be great, but instead of segregating podcast episodes from ordinary videos, what UA-cam Podcast does is simply generate a video for each podcast episode, which in my case meant an identical video for each story, because my podcast episodes are the stories that I post here on UA-cam, but they go out to other platforms like Spotify and Apple.
      The only thing that will change if you watch on UA-cam is that there will no longer be a duplicate video for each story. I'll be posting every story on here as usual.
      Hope that helps to clarify!

    • @barbaranestor1997
      @barbaranestor1997 Місяць тому +4

      @@RoweLit Whew! Thank you! I have loved sci- fi for over 50 years, But your writing is beyond compare. You are so talented, I'm so glad I came across your stories ♥

  • @dobbinthe
    @dobbinthe Місяць тому +8

    I have gotten so involved in this universe of yours that it sometimes permeates into my dreams so deeply that I awake not quite knowing which world I am living in for real.. but that doesn't last long. Each story is so full of excitement, fear and love that I have to listen through again to fully comprehend the subtleties that is intertwined in each episode. Thank you for all your wonderful work..

  • @TheEedjit
    @TheEedjit Місяць тому +7

    Dude you really hit a home run with that one.
    I was in college class listening to this and pretending to pay attention to George Orwell’s life. 😂😂

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Cheers, Eedjit! Awesome and poetic 😂 I wonder what George would have thought of Yaal.

    • @robbarnes1008
      @robbarnes1008 Місяць тому

      I reckon George would approve fellow Rowester .

  • @butterybiscuit346
    @butterybiscuit346 Місяць тому +13

    God damn dude, that one went hard! It is by far my favorite one so far, now that i am well and truly familiar and invested in the characters.
    Looking forward to the mini movie collab. Good luck!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      Cheers, BB! Glad you enjoyed it 😃🙏Just in case I wasn't as clear as I should have been, the collab will be an audiobook novella (at least for now), but we'll see if it goes anywhere from there.

  • @wesbeuning1733
    @wesbeuning1733 Місяць тому +3

    Dude, you're not lazy for not putting out a new story every single week ever ever. Who the hell else even tries, let alone consistently makes quality, let alone hard SF? U do good, man.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Cheers, Wes! The funny thing is, I feel like because I can do it and want to do it every week that I should do it every week. I don't want to leave any stories unwritten 😃Sometimes, though, you do have to come up for air.

    • @wesbeuning1733
      @wesbeuning1733 Місяць тому

      @@RoweLit that is the truth. .Got to rest that brain most of all.

  • @MrIzzyDizzy
    @MrIzzyDizzy Місяць тому +8

    Captivated. these artifact chapters are amazing.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Glad you're enjoying them! Another on the way next week 😃

  • @brianpierce5456
    @brianpierce5456 Місяць тому +4

    I am so happy that Ren got some focus. She's a character that I have been curious about.
    Thank you for your stories.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Cheers, Brian! She's been doing her best to hide in the background, but that only works for so long on the Y-C!

  • @nickifiresnow1931
    @nickifiresnow1931 Місяць тому +6

    This one was scary for me as it is one of my biggest fears-- losing my humanity. As always, I love your work. ❤

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      The good news, Nicki, according to traditional hymns, is that if lost, it can be found again 😂

  • @karlgru3n654
    @karlgru3n654 Місяць тому +5

    Thank you, P.
    My guts feel like a sack of marbles coming to rest at the end of a Maytag spin cycle...
    You are a merciless driver of visceral perturbation.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks, Karl! Give that washing machine a break. Not next week, though. More Misfits is coming!

  • @zensters60
    @zensters60 Місяць тому +7

    I love that I found you and your stories 🥰 blessings to you my friend 😊

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Me too 😃 Thanks, Zensters!

  • @charliestrachan1939
    @charliestrachan1939 Місяць тому +4

    Good to have you back

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, Charlie! Happy to be back 😃

  • @Captain_Kickass-l1f
    @Captain_Kickass-l1f Місяць тому +5

    Every time I see that you have posted a new story on your channel I have the "The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" reaction that Steve Martin has in "The Jerk".

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Everyone thinks it's all about the yellow pages, because of all the pictures and fancy fonts and advertising, but the real connoisseurs go all in for the white pages. That's where you'll find peak phone number density 😂

  • @richardburns3543
    @richardburns3543 Місяць тому +2

    Misfits and all related stories, have grown to be my absolute favorite. Thank you.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Richard! They do have a way of growing on you, I've found 😃

  • @unbentcrayfish
    @unbentcrayfish Місяць тому +3

    Another great chapter! Thanks for everything Rowe.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Crayfish!

  • @bewarethegreyghost
    @bewarethegreyghost Місяць тому +3

    Good to have you back!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, GreyGhost! Good to have a new story to share 😃

  • @valiantrobb5340
    @valiantrobb5340 Місяць тому +5

    Excellent as always. I was enthralled from start to finish. 😊

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks, Robb! Glad you enjoyed it 😃

  • @robbarnes1008
    @robbarnes1008 Місяць тому +1

    I assume Field will return when he finally " ascends" . Thus his humanity finally dies . I'm running out of superlatives. So brilliant and believable. Extraordinary. I'm a Patreon (?) now mate .I would have done it ages ago but things were tight . Cheers Robdog

  • @ChickRussell
    @ChickRussell Місяць тому +6

    Here we goooooo💜💜💜🇺🇸💜

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      🚀🚀🚀

    • @ChickRussell
      @ChickRussell Місяць тому +2

      @@RoweLit
      That was soooo good It’s crazy how invested I am in these characters. (Fieldstone needs to dump the younger chick. Just saying’…)
      Great story!🐥

  • @craigking391
    @craigking391 Місяць тому +6

    I feel you. YT notifications are unreliable. I just keep a browser tab open and reload it. Happy Thursday my dude. Love your work and I've suggested it to several people.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks, Craig! Really appreciate the recommendations 🙏

  • @robbarnes1008
    @robbarnes1008 Місяць тому +2

    Does that mean Ren retains her fighting ability? Assuming she gets into top shape . You're stories blow my mind Rowe Baby . Cheers mate

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks, Rob! We may see ... Glad you're enjoying 😃

    • @robbarnes1008
      @robbarnes1008 Місяць тому

      Ive got you on Patreon . It's basic but I'll raise it when im working again. I've never done that before, but I feel that you are that good and that you must succeed. Robdog ​@RoweLit

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      @@robbarnes1008 Thank you, Robdog! 🙏 I appreciate it sincerely. I'll be in touch through there as soon as I get a minute to respond appropriately.

  • @joanneearle8719
    @joanneearle8719 Місяць тому +3

    I was so happy to see this post! I love your story’s and so look forward to each new post. 😊

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Joanne! Glad to hear it 😃

  • @TheMediaBot
    @TheMediaBot Місяць тому +4

    Amazing story!!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, MediaBot!

  • @peterlennon1139
    @peterlennon1139 Місяць тому +2

    HOLIDAYS!! HOW DARE YOU 😂😂😂😂. Trust me have been missed but we ALL need to recharge The Batteries once in a while❤️. Welcome back and I'm waiting patiently for whatever comes next. FYI several of the people i follow are having such issues with UA-cam so take heart. Unfortunately several have given up and moved to other platforms, PLEASE DON'T DO THAT 🙏❤️

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +3

      Cheers, Peter! I have no intention of going anywhere till they throw me off the platform 😃 All of my favorite poets eventually got exiled, so I'm hoping that someday I'll be worthy of that honor as well 😂 Seriously, though, I hate to grumble about YT and I have no intention of leaving. I love that I get to share my work here with so many people all over the world (and I would love it if the podcast feature worked in the channel's favor nearly as well, but it hasn't worked out that way, unfortunately). For all it's many faults, UA-cam is seriously one of the most amazing technical advancements of my lifetime. Pardon me, though, my car has a broken shock that needs replacing, and I think I'll listen to Bach on lute, a neurology lecture, and some stand-up comedy from the 80s while I do that. This place is amazing!

  • @JasonTheFavorite
    @JasonTheFavorite Місяць тому +6

    Thank you so much! I love your work!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks, Jason! Glad to hear it 😃🙏

  • @dvd-r2268
    @dvd-r2268 Місяць тому +1

    Holy moly that was a good story. I am excited about your new projects. I dream about seeing your stories as a TV series.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, DVD! Maybe someday that dream might come true.

  • @MrIzzyDizzy
    @MrIzzyDizzy Місяць тому +3

    Thanks!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thank you for the support, MrIzzy!

  • @michaelgarrow3239
    @michaelgarrow3239 Місяць тому +2

    Hooked on Rowe! 😎

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Cheers, Michael 😃

  • @patrickbryant8156
    @patrickbryant8156 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you. I look forward to more adventures!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Patrick! More on the way 😃

  • @mrtodddelaroderie
    @mrtodddelaroderie Місяць тому +1

    My friend I was worried you want to far on the first one and this would have been rushed. But you blew my mind. This was absolutely awesome! One day when you are on top of I will be able to say I was here at the genesis of it!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Todd! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm not sure where this whole process will take me, but I'm going to keep writing regardless of where I end up. In this case especially, it's all about the journey(s) 🚀🚀🚀

  • @philippriestman8516
    @philippriestman8516 Місяць тому +1

    Such maturity in the story here……I was riveted all three listens, so yes I hold by that. New stories coming in hot! I really do look forward to new stories, thanks man..🤝

    • @philippriestman8516
      @philippriestman8516 Місяць тому

      Ps. Had to endure the paucity by reading Greg bears eon again, and the scope of your parallel existences available thru the artefacts with the assurance that death is merely the means to return to ‘real space time’ is wider in my humble opinion, you have created the never ending story.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, Philip. I look forward to sharing them as well. If only I had a clone or two we could get probably about half as much done 😂 My house would be cleaner, but there'd be nothing but bickering in the writer's room 😂

    • @philippriestman8516
      @philippriestman8516 Місяць тому

      @@RoweLit my problem to progress is once I open the gate to one idea it grows tentacles that reach out and grab a dozen more in a split second….and it’s not possible to write that fast. Great news that you are knocking some episodes into shape for a visual series….i won’t use tv or film to give it a name because heritage media for storytelling has its days numbered. Years ago at film school I wanted my film to be projected on multiple screens, each screen showing the same scenes from different angles, I figured that the narrative for each viewing would change in the viewers mind according to the order of sequencing their eyes followed….i was reading Sergei Eisenstein at the time, one page a day! Dense. So in this non linear digital world we now inhabit it might be interesting to play with method and form… the way you covered the shoot out in the mall anyways I look forward to it

  • @ronbynum7304
    @ronbynum7304 Місяць тому +1

    Another brilliant, riveting story; and a Thursday worth looking forward to. Thanks so much!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Ron! Glad you enjoyed it 😃

  • @charlieosko4151
    @charlieosko4151 Місяць тому +1

    SO GOOD

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheer, Charlie!

  • @lararabb8888
    @lararabb8888 Місяць тому +1

    Great chapter! 😊❤

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Lara!

  • @Bob-h3n
    @Bob-h3n Місяць тому +1

    So cool

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, Bob!

  • @madderhat5852
    @madderhat5852 Місяць тому

    For me, this is your most hard hitting, heart-breaking story so far. Thank you.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, MH 🙏 Glad it resonated for you.

  • @JustVisiting_
    @JustVisiting_ Місяць тому +3

    Nooo! I'm all caught up with every story, and it feels awful! Being we don't have an Artifact, does anyone know a good doctor that could put me in a hibernational state for awhile?

    • @Katyas-Korner
      @Katyas-Korner Місяць тому +1

      I remember that commercial about being in a “show hole” where they were in the yard burying their tv. Haha.

  • @m.j.johnsonbooks7856
    @m.j.johnsonbooks7856 Місяць тому

    You never fail to get me thinking about the brain, the soul, and the human experience. I eagerly await Fieldstone’s return.
    Glad to hear you have big plans in the works! Good health in good growth!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, MJ! Those are the big questions 😃 I love that fiction can ask them in ways that allow people to grapple with them differently. Plus, sci-fi is so fun to write!

  • @perrydickerson-n8i
    @perrydickerson-n8i Місяць тому

    The "Misfits" have me hooked.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Perry! Glad you're enjoying 😃

  • @bravotwozero535
    @bravotwozero535 Місяць тому +2

    The stories would adapt well to live action cinema but it would take an equal creative talent to cast it and hold it true to the source material. Until then, I really enjoy the current format.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, B20! Who knows? Maybe someday. Until then, I'll keep writing 😃

    • @Bob-h3n
      @Bob-h3n Місяць тому

      For real, some of his stories would make a great sci fyi episode

  • @DavidDube-wi4ey
    @DavidDube-wi4ey Місяць тому

    Good to hear from you. Good story.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, David! 😃🙏

  • @ct250775
    @ct250775 Місяць тому

    You are amazing! Thank you for this great but somehow terrifying story.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Thanks, Christof 😃

  • @kevindean6600
    @kevindean6600 Місяць тому

    Good as always. Thanks man

  • @QbicLT
    @QbicLT Місяць тому

    Thaaaank You ❤loved it

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers! Happy to share 😃

  • @SWOOP1R
    @SWOOP1R Місяць тому

    Bravo!!🎉

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, SWOOP1R! 🙏

  • @catgraynow
    @catgraynow Місяць тому

    That was such a good one. I can't wait for the next. I'm not giving anything away 😂

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, Cat! No wait necessary 😃 "To Iophos" is waiting for you!

  • @rlbf1967
    @rlbf1967 Місяць тому

    Crumbs both deep and very dark! Definitely challenges one to ponder what the minimal human is needed to be human. With just an organic brain stem left, I guess that level maintains some vestiges of the animal machinery for wakefulness and sleep meaning I suppose although awareness now lives in a synthetic substrate, the patterns copied from the organic original are not yet ready for a sleepless existence. Moving to that final level would I further guess leave what it means to be human behind, a consequence being a certain number of subjects failing to adapt (going mad in the process) and presumably being “deactivated” before any kind of fighting is even considered. Mr. Rowe, wow! Just wow! Maybe a dystopian world as dark, if not darker, as anything from Aldous Huxley!

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  28 днів тому

      Cheers, Richard! All questions for the coming age 😃

  • @Just_Call_Me_Frank
    @Just_Call_Me_Frank Місяць тому

    Good stuff

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, Frank!

  • @paultanker5606
    @paultanker5606 Місяць тому

    G'day to you again my Friend! Intriguing very intriguing , once more a very good tale, I am trying to work out where it will end up, thank you once more, looking forward to next Adventure! Armadale West Aust.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому

      Cheers, Paul! Coming soon 🚀🚀

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 Місяць тому

    Oh my! Oh my! Oh my!
    🤗🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +1

      Cheers, Barry! 😃😃😃

  • @sanecanadian2351
    @sanecanadian2351 Місяць тому

    I meant to comment on this last week but its been busy. It was a great story to relax to after finishing midterms. 1/4 the way done the academic side of primary care paramedic. Its rough being back in school after this many years lol. The story was oddly relatable. I have had to rebuild my way of treating patients from a military perspective to the civilian world. Also we have mandatory jiu jitsu, where I have learn to not use as much force as I would have in the military lol unlike your characters lol. As always thank you for sharing these wonderful stories.

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  28 днів тому

      Cheers, SC! Jiu Jitsu is part of paramedic training? I definitely never got that class. I stopped at BLS 😂

    • @sanecanadian2351
      @sanecanadian2351 28 днів тому

      @@RoweLit Yeah Im attending an academy. Its the same jiu jitsu course the police here get.

  • @bmobert
    @bmobert Місяць тому

    That was heavy.
    Good. But heavy.

  • @davebnsfnscale4433
    @davebnsfnscale4433 Місяць тому

    Wow

  • @robbarnes1008
    @robbarnes1008 Місяць тому

    Gimme that Yaya Carl

  • @David-cf2iq
    @David-cf2iq Місяць тому +2

    Clean Up that YaYa....

    • @David-cf2iq
      @David-cf2iq Місяць тому +3

      Please excuse my indulgence in euphemisms....

    • @RoweLit
      @RoweLit  Місяць тому +4

      Didn't see that one coming 😂😂