Motel Americana is a short story audio drama podcast or: Odd and lovely tales set in a crummy motel in Jersey circa the 1980’s.

The stories run the literary gamut, from sci-fi and horror to comedy and romance.

These stories are based upon the writings of Oscar Garret, a kid who lived at the Motel Americana in the 80’s with his family and who bugged the rooms.

The audio surveillance footage that Oscar captured clearly served as the source material for his semi-fictional writings, and those writings serve as the source material for the audio drama that’s presented here.

Wherever possible, I inter-cut the actual surveillance audio that Oscar’s bugs captured into the narrative.

A full account of my encounter with Oscar and how I came into possession of his writings and audio footage can be found in episodes one and two. If you haven’t listened to those yet, I do suggest you start there, though it’s not entirely necessary as most the tales are self-contained.

As I continue to sort my way through the material, I’m finding that many of the characters’ tales are loosely interconnected and they are beginning to offer a backdrop, and perhaps some answers, to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the eventual disappearance of Oscar and, indeed, of the motel itself.

But I won’t get ahead of myself.

Making sense of Oscar’s stories is an endeavor of discovery, attended by the wide array of joys, fears, and terrible uncertainties that make any discovery worth making.

Thanks for listening along with me.

-Jack Same

P.S. and thank you in advance for your patience. As I’m a one man team (for the time being), the best I can commit to is a sporadic release of the episodes (so please consider subscribing). I currently have six episodes in the can, as they say. Many more to follow.