The Common Tales

The Common Tales — Ep 10: The Night I Ate Lamb

A man with a chemistry degree attempts to reconstruct a pizza in a world that has never heard of a tomato. It goes exactly as well as that sounds. Then, the same week, th

The Common Tales — Ep 9: Everything Here Outlives Me

A complaint about shoes that gets away from Phil. Four pairs in three years, a cobbler who takes it personally, and a world where a man's boots were his father's and noth

The Common Tales — Ep 8: Engines in the Dark

The first song Phil ever played here that came from home — a highway anthem about engines, performed for a room where nobody has ever seen a car. It went wrong the first

The Common Tales — Ep 7: The Man in the Tower

The first story Phil ever told in this world wasn't his, wasn't true, and had a plot hole he had to perform his way out of live. A man alone in a tower, an army of thieve

The Common Tales — Ep 6: Field Recording: This Happened Today

Not a story — this one just happened. A few hours ago Phil did something careless and paid for it, and Rurik patched him up with the good potion, the kind you save. Recor

The Common Tales — Ep 5: The Man With Two Chairs

The day Phil met Lord Edwyn Cassel — a genuinely good man who liked him on sight, for no reason Phil could name, and never once produced the catch Phil kept waiting for.

The Common Tales — Ep 4: The Day I Met the Bird

The day Phil met Wren — a ranger who out-tracked him, out-shot him, corrected him to the name she chose, and has been everything-but-that to him ever since. A story about

The Common Tales — Ep 3: The First Time I Saw It Work

The day a clay cup broke on a tavern floor, someone knelt to mend it with their hands, and the last thing Phil was sure about quietly stopped being true. A chemist runs o

The Common Tales — Ep 2: The Night Football Started a Bar Fight

Phil tells the Cosset about the night he tried to explain college football to a room full of people who'd never heard of it — and watched a tavern come apart over a game

The Common Tales — Ep 1: The Night I Arrived

Phil tells the Cosset about the night everything changed: a dive bar in Youngstown, a stranger in a t-shirt that said THE MAGIC IS REAL, and the argument he lost more com