Pure Imagination Show Archive

A Letter to the Shareholders:

Pure Imagination is a radio drama broadcast Wednesdays at 9 PM ET on 90.5 WVUM in Miami, FL. Itunes users may subscribe to the Pure Imagination podcast here. Non-Itunes users can find the podcast here.

A schedule of broadcasts and live events can be found at our MySpace page. To be included on our email list for Important Alerts and Notifications, write us at pureimagine@gmail.com.

Also, you can read the new stories "The Pride" and "Jokes I Have Known" at isgreaterthan.net.

Also also, Matt has been known to post the occasional very, very short story on atomisk.com.

    Show Archive:

  • The Auteur [48.3 mb]
    • A troubled avant garde German director makes infomercials, corporate training videos, and the Driver's Ed Trilogy.
  • Hello Incoming Freshmen [40.5 mb]
    • A campus tour, an anthropology lecture, and a graduation speech at EducationLand! Miami-Dade North.
  • A Series of Tactical Errors [39.1 mb]
    • The Mr. Dictator Pageant suffers some setbacks, a senator apologizes for indiscretions behind his podium, and a presidential candidate campaigns with the blues.
  • Stimulus [35.9 mb]
    • A father teaches his daughters an ill-fated lesson on capitalism, a couple argue about purchasing a holographic video system, and a man offers the girl of his dreams one economic stimulus payment's worth of passion.
  • Jokes Have I Known [42.3 mb]
    • A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar . . .
  • The Pride [44.5 mb]
    • A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.
  • Monster [36.3 mb]
    • Werewolves and a reluctant Monster's Bride struggle with the indignities of the modern age.
  • The Unseen Seagal [30.1 mb]
    • Synopses of lesser known Steven Seagal films and the Greatest Love Story Ever Told.
  • Curriculum Vitae [33.0 mb]
    • Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job.
  • Post-Christmas Special [28.5 mb]
    • Five elves from different socioeconomic backgrounds discuss life in the North Pole.
  • Goodbye Maxine [36.0 mb]
    • A server at Neil Armstrong's Giant Leap for Mankind Pancake House laments love lost in a dying town known for its memory-eating tar pits.
  • True to Life [30.3 mb]
    • What's the Most Humiliating Thing You Would Do on Television for Fifty Dollars? and other pressing questions posed and pondered by reality TV execs and contestants.
  • What's With the Cape? [37.1 mb]
    • Lobster Boy, Slime Girl, Awesome Jr., the Amazing Fireball, and the lover of the Blue Flash discuss the harsh realities of lives spent battling evil in spandex.
  • People Ain't No Good [34.7 mb]
    • An unpopular girl attempts to win Show and Tell, an obese supermarket bagger wallows in the shadow of his famous brother, and a seven year old is abandoned by his Mother in the Repository for Unwanted Infants.
  • The Mannequin [31.7 mb]
    • A Driver's Ed instructor from the Bone 'n Gristle District takes affluent kids driving through Jesustown, human mannequins endure innumerable indignities at a failing department store, and a cloud watching enthusiast battles depression.
  • Guy Meets Girl [32.3 mb]
    • The World's Greatest Lover holds court at a dive bar, a lady-in-waiting dissuades a knight from slaying dragons for her, and other awkward interactions between the sexes.
  • The Great Spumoni (re-edited version) [30.4 mb]
    • The son, lover, and protege of a recently deceased magician remember his rise and fall.
  • The Museum of Impossible Loves [35.0 mb]
    • A museum curator guides visitors through exhibits detailing his failed romantic relationships, a woman falls in and out of love with a menu writer, and a high school student becomes enamored with a local musician who only knows one song.
  • Act Now and You Shall Never Know Sadness or Fear [34.3 mb]
    • Advertisers make questionable product claims for Auxiliary Morale Boosting Reengagement Rings and Six Speed Oscillating Toothbrushes, among others, and trouble ensues when a vending machine only dispenses root beer to the pure of heart.
  • Advanced Techniques for Beginners [32.1 mb]
    • How to dress for success, how to play better golf, and the loneliness of the octagonal pizza deliveryman.
  • Factory Love [30.5 mb]
    • The Playboy of Assembly Line Three, the Numbers Department, and more stories of love in the time of Avian Flu.
  • The Caretaker [40.1 mb]
    • An embattled cemetery caretaker struggles to appease the living and the dead.
  • City and the Crime Complex [28.8 mb]
    • A recently released convict attends his high school reunion, a businessman lectures drug dealers on salesmanship techniques, and more tales of the city's seedy underbelly.
  • Blue Genes [27.0 mb]
    • The clones of a star athlete, Abraham Lincoln, and a young boy crushed by a model of a blue whale relate the difficulties of being genetic copies.
  • Two Hundred Years of Debra [32.0 mb]
    • Several generations of Debras meet untimely and violent deaths.
  • Divorce and the Robot [32.9 mb]
    • The young child of divorced parents copes as his mom moves in with her doubles tennis partner and his dad purchases a marital robot.
  • Trick or Treat [40.8 mb]
    • A neighborhood eccentric creates elaborate jack-o-lanterns, a timid office worker dresses as Zorro for a company Halloween party, and a man inspects trick-or-treat candy for health violations.
  • The Little Lady [37.2 mb]
    • An aging TV weatherman struggles to appeal to the youth demographic, a married man secretly lusts after the eleven inch tall wife of a casual acquaintance, and the lawns of a small Midwestern town are plagued with mysterious holes.
  • Out of Time [25.6 mb]
    • A police officer lives his fantasy of being a cowboy, a millionaire abandons his mansion for the life of a hunter-gatherer, and a Mississippi high school girl dreams of marrying the Prince of Denmark.
  • Fortune Falls [33.8 mb]
    • Two stories set in small Wisconsin towns: a former Olympic pairs figure skater works as a carhop on rollerskates at a retro 50's diner, and a young man works for a maze company.
  • The Janitor [28.2 mb]
    • A recent high school graduate hired by the same school he once attended finds solace from his daily grind in the nurse's office and an out of the way service elevator.
  • Do The Evolution [28.7 mb]
    • Three first year teachers in Topeka, Kansas are ordered by law to teach intelligent design in conjunction with evolutionary theory.
  • Nothing Touches Me [32.3 mb]
    • An insurance adjuster allergic to the human touch loathes his coworkers and trains to break the world record for holding one's breath underwater.
  • Birth of an Assassination [31.5 mb]
    • A boy learns the exact time and date of his death at a carnival and decides to become a hired assassin.
  • The Highway [32.8 mb]
    • A recently married couple adopts a highway, an awkward introvert works as a professional dater, and a young man receives a Russian mail order bride as a birthday present.
  • American Backbone [25.0 mb]
    • A lifeguard is hired as a pool cleaner by an eccentric, licentious older woman.
  • Fashion is Exhausting [28.9 mb]
    • Three Midwesterners stumble through the Miami fashion scene and the Wisconsin Miss Teen Dairy Pageant.
  • Submarine High School [25.4 mb]
    • A year in the life of three students attending the U.S.S. Dubuque High School, embedded in a functioning nuclear attack submarine.
  • My Dear Persephone [32.9 mb]
    • An astronaut leaves his beloved space station to fight real estate development in outer space.
  • The Ugly Kennedy [26.9 mb]
    • The son of a woman obsessed with the Kennedy family leaves home to join a traveling carnival.
  • Pure Imagination Theme Song [2 mb]
    • Composed by Nick Kruge (check out his album "Lullabies for Strangers" - it is very good)