Welcome to Amateur Story Hour, a CIS student podcast coming to you from the Media and Storytelling ECA in room C42. In our inaugural episode, we hear from Sayumi Higata, who shares a story her mother told her about an unusual high school reunion. It was like any other reunion - old friends getting together to reminisce about old times. Only this one took place In a cemetery. At night. What could go wrong?

Episode 1 - Graveyard Encounter

In a dystopic world where Deepfake technology makes it impossible to know whether what we see on screen is real, images take on lives of their own. They might even take the lives of others. In this episode of Amateur Story Hour, Eunseo Lim reads her Sci-fi short story, “The Jenkins Tapes,” and shares her views on our increasingly image-driven world and how this affects her approach to fiction writing.

Episode 2 - The Jenkins Tapes

As members of an international school, we regularly see people drift in and out of our lives as they move to new opportunities or return home to countries across the world. It is easy to become numb to the impact that those people have on our community. We learn to let go, to move on, to look the other way; we forget those who are no longer with us, but at what cost? In this episode of Amateur Story Hour, Taiki Terada reads his short story, "The Presentation," and shares his thoughts on writing and questions surrounding life, death, and the importance of memory in making sense of the world around us.