May 15, 2026
Hoping to find some inspiration
and direction in life, an aimless young woman buys a top hat at the
estate sale of a magician.
Genre: Mystery, Mythology,
Science Fiction
Excerpt:
Ro checked the bookcases
and found some intriguing titles.
Animating Your Crafts
Finding the Right Writer to Type on
Your Haunted Typewriter
Philosophy and Alchemy: A
Foundation
Illusions to Fool the Physical
Senses: A Foundation
Illusions to Fool the Psychic Senses:
A Foundation
Love Potions, Snake Oils, and Other
Tonic Myths
In fact, they all looked
intriguing. “Where do I begin?” she thought.
The Wheel of Fiction
Turns. What did it land on this
time?
Each Season 9 story
follows a theme chosen by the Wheel of Fiction. Thirteen spokes.
Eight are the themes from previous seasons. One is “Turn Again.”
One is a wild card. And three are covered in question marks and
will be revealed when the wheel lands on them.
See a story trailer and a
(satisfying) video of the wheel turning here: Transdimensional Top Hat
This episode landed on OBJECTS OF POWER. I chose
a top hat, which made me think of stage magic, and other kinds of
magic.
Find more stories and episodes about
powerful objects here: Year of
Objects of Power.
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CREDITS
Story: “Transdimensional
Top Hat” Copyright © 2022 by Nila L.
Patel
Narration, Episode Art,
Editing, and Production: Nila L.
Patel
Music:
“Abstract Vision
#3” by ANDREW SITKOV (Intro & Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)
Music by ANDREA BARONI
(Cyberleaf)
“Ground
Control”
“You Were Always in the Right
Place”
“Fugue for One Synthetic
Heart”
“Forest
Bathing”
“Evolving
Cities”
“Slightly
Across”
“Dancing
Operators”
“March of the Waking
Lights”
Music by ANDREW SITKOV
(MuzStation Game Music)
“Abstract
Vision #3”
“Abstract Vision
#2”
“Abstract Vision
#1”
“Abstract Vision #4”
All tracks are part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Andrea Baroni and
Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev
Market
Sound effects from
AudioJungle, GameDevMarket, and
Soundly (through Hindenburg)
Vocal effects created with Audacity
Changes made to the musical tracks? Just
cropping of some to align with my narration.
Find more music by Andrea Baroni and
Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art
Description:
Digital drawing.
A young woman at center seen from knees up, dressed in top hat,
ruffled shirt, and a jacket with coattails. She stands facing
forward, turned slightly to the right, arms raised and bent, hands
flourished. From her right shoulder, a flock of a butterflies fly
up to upper left corner, one of them perched on her right index
finger. Bottom right corner, waist-high to the young woman, stands
a classic style robot made out of blocks and circles, with right
arm raised, see from mid-section up. Watermark of “Storyfeather”
beneath right collar of jacket.