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Every couple of years, I’ll take the stories down from the podcast and package them all up into a neat collection for purchase. The first collection is out now!
Listen To The Signal: Short Stories Volume 1
Published February 2019, the stories in this volume include: Dakō • Today I Invented Time Travel • End Game • November 8, 2016 • Quick Fix • Horatio Breathed His Last • Purgatory • Out of the Blue • Tick Tick Tick • Rose • Red Parka • Bloop • Their DNA Was No Longer the Same • The Last One • Mister Personality • Christmas in Silver Peak.
Back when I started this project, I was thinking what the heck, writing some short stories will keep me fresh, let me try things I might not try otherwise, act as a sort-of sketch book of my story ideas: the funny, the weird, the scary, the sappy, and sometimes all of that mashed up together. Well, two years later, I had no idea how proud I would be of this body of work, and how genuinely psyched I am to be sharing these stories with you in this format. I probably shouldn’t pump up the hype too much, and let you decide on your own, but man, going through these again for production, I felt like a proud papa, gathering up all my little babies, or like I was collecting a bag of gems.
Wow, I just wrote “bag of gems” in all seriousness, like it’s a totally everyday phrase, like I might find myself out on horseback in some medieval European country and have the need to reach into my little leather sack for a gem to purchase an entire village.
Anyway, this book feels like a bag of gems to me, and I hope it does to you, too.
About Rob Dircks

Hi. I’m Rob Dircks, #1 Audible bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla?, The Wrong Unit, Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff! (Where the Hell is Tesla? Book 2), You’re Going to Mars!, and I’m a member of SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America). My prior work includes the anti-self-help book Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential By Doing Less, and a drawerful of screenplays and short stories. Some of these sci-fi short stories appear right here, narrated by yours truly.
I’m a big fan of classic science fiction. When not writing, I’m helping other authors publish their own work with Goldfinch Publishing, writing and designing for the award-winning ad agency I own with his brother (appropriately called Dircks Associates), and generally doing what I call “sampling”: video production, audio production, app development, photography, guitar, reading, cooking. (Note the absence of the phrases “going to the gym” and “running iron-man triathalons.”)
You can connect with me on my website, robdircks.com, or via the social media links below.