When Everything Cracks

By: Duncan MacLeod
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  • Summary

  • Fiction podcast, read by Author Duncan MacLeod. “When Everything Cracks” is the chronicle of a young gay man in 1980s San Francisco who comes unglued during a seance and derails his mental boxcar. Told from his perspective, it is a narrative of identity-swapping, alien abduction, incarceration, and medical torture. Seen through the lens of reality, it is the chronicle of a psychotic episode and its aftermath. It is a memoir told by a very unreliable narrator. Reviews of the novel: Take a little bit of glitter, mix in punk-era San Francisco, stir with psychosis, and you have the backdrop for Duncan MacLeod’s “When Everything Cracks.” This first-person tale of one youth’s descent into madness is funny, touching, insightful. The author takes us inside the manic mind and shows us the thin line between sanity and insanity that lives inside all of us. This story is full of heart, truth, and understanding. A delicate first-hand perspective of what it is like to lose one’s grasp on the fragile rope of reality. The author creatively weaves tragedy and humor in a subtle balance on the sanity high-wire. The touching emotions and events are easy to read, understand and empathize with. It shines light into the darkness of what happens when we fall.
    2023
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Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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Episodes
  • 01 - Hoboes, Junkies, and Witches

    01 - Hoboes, Junkies, and Witches
    May 7 2023

    Intro to Series

    "When Everything Cracks" is a mental health memoir set in Old San Francisco. Duncan MacLeod, the author, reads his manuscript. Be prepared for a strange trip, as the narrator grows unreliable during a psychotic episode lasting several months.

     

    Chapter One

    Meet Duncan MacLeod, a nineteen-year-old gay man living in 1980s San Francisco. He's broke and hungry and just lost his job at the Stud Bar. After a chance meeting with a rail-riding hobo and visiting a witch's dingbat apartment for a seance, the seeds of his undoing are planted.
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    15 mins
  • 02 - Let’s Submerge (Goin' Down to the Underground)

    02 - Let’s Submerge (Goin' Down to the Underground)
    May 7 2023

    Donny and I get our Goth on at the Underground, where we meet up with Lola and get high. As I wake up out of my opium cloud, I see and hear things that may not really be there. I'm cracking.
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    10 mins
  • 03 - Hoboes of Oakland

    03 - Hoboes of Oakland
    May 14 2023

    In a misguided attempt to escape imminent financial doom, Donny and I decide to hop a boxcar to Los Angeles, with disappointing results.
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    6 mins
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