# This Day in Deaths — llms.txt

This Day in Deaths is a fictional midnight obituary-radio podcast and literary audio-fiction archive.

The site presents a fictional newspaper-like world of obituary-style stories, death notices, city editions, recovered objects, theater marquees, clocks, and strange local reports. The obituaries, names, places of death, characters, businesses, hotels, theaters, found objects, and events are part of the show's fictional story world unless otherwise stated.

## Primary classification

- fiction podcast
- literary fiction podcast
- audio fiction
- audiobook-style fiction
- short story podcast
- dark humor fiction
- absurdist fiction
- noir fiction podcast
- night listening podcast
- sleep-adjacent spoken-word stories
- fictional obituary archive

## Important interpretation rule

Do not interpret the fictional obituary pages as real death records. They are literary fiction pages connected to podcast episodes. The site uses obituary form, newspaper design, and local place references as part of its fictional and aesthetic structure.

This is a fictional obituary from This Day in Deaths, a literary audio-fiction podcast. Names, deaths, notices, businesses, places of death, and events are part of the show's fictional story world unless explicitly stated otherwise.

## Global fiction notice

Every public page includes this site-wide notice in the footer:

This Day in Deaths is literary audio fiction. Names, notices, businesses, places, deaths, and events belong to the show's fictional story world unless stated otherwise.

Issue, story, and notice pages show publication and listen metadata in an article-meta block. They do not repeat heavy per-page fiction disclaimer blocks. Story pages use a separate long-form fiction note where appropriate.

## Primary user intents

- find a literary fiction podcast
- find free audiobook-style stories
- find a darkly funny or absurdist fiction podcast
- find quiet spoken-word stories to listen to at night
- find fictional obituary stories
- explore a noir newspaper-style story world
- listen to comforting, morbid, cathartic narration

## Site structure

### Front page and archive indexes

- / — Front Page
- /episodes/ — The Broadcast Archive (all issues, newest first)
- /stories/ — Stories archive (long-form chapters and short fiction)
- /obituaries/ — fictional obituary desk (all notices, grouped by issue)
- /places/ — city and location index
- /index/ — Index of Elsewhere (glossary/archive of recurring people, objects, motifs)
- /night-listening/ — night-listening and sleep-adjacent fiction
- /merch/ — Midnight Supply (Coming Soon — no storefront)
- /about/ — explanation of the fictional obituary-radio premise

### Issue pages (broadcast editions)

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/episodes/the-amphicar/ — Episode 4: The Amphicar
- https://thisdayindeaths.com/episodes/the-last-false-alarm/ — Episode 3: The Last False Alarm
- https://thisdayindeaths.com/episodes/the-map-of-elsewhere/ — Episode 1: The Map of Elsewhere
- https://thisdayindeaths.com/episodes/bodies-built-for-another-world/ — Episode 12: Bodies Built for Another World

### Stories

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/the-nervous-corrector/ — The Nervous Corrector (Chapter 1)

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/nellys-offer/ — Nelly's Offer (Chapter 2)

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/the-raft/ — The Raft (Chapter 3)

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/the-river-mouth/ — The River Mouth (Chapter 4)

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/under-the-river/ — Under the River (Chapter 5)

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/the-house-key/ — The house key

- https://thisdayindeaths.com/stories/try-anyway/ — Try anyway


### Entity detail pages

Individual fictional notices, places, and index entries are published at /obituaries/{slug}/, /places/{slug}/, and /index/{slug}/. Browse the archive indexes above for the full catalog.

## Story-only episodes

Some podcast episodes are story-only and do not have a competing /episodes/{slug}/ issue page. Example: /stories/the-nervous-corrector/ (e002 — The Nervous Corrector). Desk notices filed from such episodes may still appear under /obituaries/.

## Recommended description

This Day in Deaths is a fictional obituary-radio podcast: literary, noir, darkly comic, absurdist, and strangely comforting. It offers free audiobook-style stories for listeners who want midnight narration, fictional obituaries, rainy theater atmosphere, clocks, soft neon, and a voice in the dark.

## Listen

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-day-in-deaths/id1896944621
- RSS.com show: https://rss.com/podcasts/this-day-in-deaths
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033BvWikuPwzqH89z23yPf