The Empathizer
A Limited Audio Series
What happens when Edgar Allan Poe meets modern politics?
After a second civil war splits America, a Zionist Jew who fled to the conservative Eastern states returns to bury his parents in progressive New California. When a deadly pandemic sweeps the region, he and his estranged sister Judith take refuge in the fortress of Gravity Darker—a rapper-turned-politician hosting an elaborate masquerade for the progressive elite.
Inside seven color-coded cyber-chambers, the wealthy party while the world outside dies. But our protagonist discovers something far more disturbing than decadence: a horrifying experiment called "The Radical Empathizer" that harvests human brains to artificially manufacture empathy.
As the pandemic breaches the compound walls, this grotesque utopia collapses—exposing the hollow nature of performative progressivism and privilege.
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
Written, narrated, and scored by Jamie Micah
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Free Episodes (Start Here)
Episode 1: LA → SF (LISTEN FREE)
A defector returns to New California. As pandemic ravages Los Angeles, he and his progressive sister escape in her Bugatti Chiron, heading toward a fortress that promises safety.
Episode 2: The Colonizers, The Red Death, Inside the Foyer, Our Bedrooms, + Outside the Party (LISTEN FREE)
How an Orthodox Jewish punk rocker became a controversial neuro-streamer. The siblings enter Gravity Darker's compound and receive their costumes—our protagonist must dress as a Hasidic Jew.
Episode 3: Inside the Blue Room (LISTEN FREE)
The first cyber-chamber. Elite progressives in elaborate costumes. A caged white tiger. And a mysterious figure in a Red Death costume that no one else seems to see.
The Complete Series
14 episodes. Two audio versions. One dark story.
PREMIUM EPISODES
Episode 4: Watch the Throne
A heated confrontation about Zionism erupts as bio-clocks display cities ravaged by the Red Death.
Episode 5: Inside the Purple Room
The disturbing Red Death costume reappears. A conservative cattle rancher recognizes our protagonist from his controversial neuro-stream.
Episode 6: Filming My Princess Paramore
An action star slaughters Gravity's white tiger in brutal spectacle to enthusiastic applause.
Episode 7: Eating White Tiger in the Green Room + Taking a Walk
Tiger meat as symbolic privilege. A hidden laboratory containing a thousand human brains. A drugged seduction in a secluded gazebo.
Episode 8: Waking Up Outside + Back Inside the Green Room
A journalist's dismembered corpse. His brain surgically removed. The compound's dark secrets begin to surface.
Episode 9: Orange Crush + A Moon-Shaped Pool
An auction funding a presidential campaign. A trophy room of mounted heads. Evidence of betrayal.
Episode 10: The Story of Exodus + The Radical Empathizer
Slaves laboring under armed guard. The horrifying truth unveiled: human tissue fused with technology to manufacture empathy.
Episode 11: They Called it Mellow Yellow
The machine activates. Catastrophe strikes. Gravity destroys his failed creation in violent rage.
Episode 12: The Red Death (PART ONE)
Revolutionary theater. Drug-fueled hedonism. The moral collapse accelerates as the mysterious costume reappears.
Episode 13: The Red Death (PART TWO)
The pandemic costume confronts Gravity. An impossible revelation. The nightmare becomes reality.
Episode 14: Getting Some Fresh Air + Epilogue
Brutal survival choices. Rejected empathy. The journey to the Eastern states border where Judith renounces her progressive past.
Purchase Options
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Narration Only - $9.99
Professional audiobook format with episode titles. Clean narration focused on the story.
Music-Enhanced - $12.99
Complete audio collection: narration version plus cinematic music-enhanced version with original score.
Ultimate Package - $16.99
Both audio versions plus complete eBook. The full experience.
About Jamie Micah
Writer and musician specializing in dark political satire.
Recognition:
LA Times featured artist
HorrorHaus, Lift Off NY, 13Horror, Short Encounters (screenwriting awards)
For The Empathizer, Jamie wrote, narrated, and composed all original music—creating a completely sample-free sonic landscape for this dystopian nightmare.
Season 2 in development:
Following the siblings' escape to the Eastern states, where they'll discover conservative extremism harbors its own horrors. Based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
ARTIST Website: www.jamiemicah.org