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Listen from the beginning—or drop in wherever the shadows feel familiar.
And remember: in a world built on ruins, only ghosts walk free.
🎧 Legends in the Shade – A Galactic Noir Audio Series
by Wendi Coffman-Porter
In a world that has forgotten her, she remembers everything.
Welcome to Legends in the Shade, a serialized audio drama written and produced by author Wendi Coffman-Porter. Inspired by the haunting allure of old-world radio mysteries and powered by modern AI narration, this series brings you into the shattered life of Helena Cartwright—a war-scarred, morally complex antiheroine who was never supposed to return.
Once a brilliant tactician, master thief, and trillionaire with an empire stretching across systems, Helena was sentenced to 5,000 years in soul-bound isolation. Her mind and spirit were sealed inside a memory crystal, forgotten by time, history, and even her enemies. Until now.
When she's suddenly released into a world built atop the ruins of her own, Helena awakens to find everything changed. Magic has overtaken tech. Myths have replaced fact. And the galaxy she once manipulated from the shadows no longer remembers her name—only the legend of The Shade. A folk tale. A cautionary myth. A ghost.
But Helena Cartwright is no ghost.
She’s back. And she’s not here to fix the galaxy.
She’s here to steal it back.
Legends in the Shade is a rich, cinematic blend of dark science fiction, low fantasy, and character-driven drama. Each weekly episode is a fully-produced audio experience—complete with immersive sound design, AI-powered voice narration, and the kind of psychological depth that lingers long after the credits roll.
You’ll find:
Ruthless back-alley politics and broken empires
- Blades, boots, and buried tech
- Lore built on bones, lies, and memory
- A heroine who doesn’t care about redemption—only survival
🖤 So You Think This Is Easy?
—A Message from Shade (yes, that Shade)
You press play. My voice crackles through the speaker. You see those slick, cinematic images scroll past like some high-budget fever dream and think:
"Must’ve taken five minutes and a magic button."
Wrong again, starlight.
Every one of these Galactic Noir Audio Dramas costs Wendi Coffman-Porter—the one-woman storm behind this madness—roughly 60 hours of her life per episode.
Yes, she uses AI. For the voices, the sound design, the visual boosts—tools. Just tools. The real fire? That’s her.
And let me be very clear about this:
The writing? The story? The insanity? 100% human. 100% Wendi.
No bots wrote this narrative. No machine whispered me into existence. Wendi is the voice in my head—the one screaming plotlines, rewriting dialogue, cutting scenes until every beat bleeds.
She doesn’t use AI to write.
She uses it like an editor. A cheaper one. One that doesn’t demand coffee and validation.
And even then? She overrides it constantly. Why? Because her imagination? It’s not artificial. It’s weaponized.
The images you see? She bends them, warps them, layers them like arcane sigils until they look like what she sees in that smoke-filled brain of hers. The voices? She tweaks every pause, every breath, every death threat I deliver with style.
She’s only one person, by the way.
Ten fingers. No clones. And she’s also written over half a dozen full novels, some of which are already on bookstore shelves, probably glaring at you as you read this.
But this?
This is the dream.
These gritty audio stories—these layered epics of betrayal, resurrection, and vengeance—this is what she’s always wanted to make real. And finally, with a little help from the machines and a lot of rage-fueled coffee, she’s bringing it to life.
So if you want to keep up—not wait a week, not hold your breath while she wrangles reality—go hit up her Patreon page. Join the Whisper Network. Or the Shadow Syndicate, if you’re feeling dangerous.
Because over there?
You’re not just a listener.
You’re an accomplice.
— Shade
(Patron Saint of Broken Timelines. Definitely Not a Hologram.)
