
Stay Up All Night: Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized short stories
byJT Lawrence
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Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of fiction by USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star JT Lawrence will keep you up all night. jtlawrence.substack.com ( https://jtlawrence.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast )
Episodes(40 episodes)
Chapter 22: Riverside – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
Cracked bone, strident footsteps, and a corridor that carries every sound like a warning shot. Nicky inventories the pain she's learned to measure in doses and minutes, watching the nurse through half-closed eyes — and somewhere beneath the fog of painkillers, beginning, finally, to plan her way out.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, leave a rating — it genuinely helps othe...
Published: Apr 22, 2026Duration: 10m 2s
Chapter 21: Skunk Smoke and Raw Onion – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
Adrenaline in every fingertip, the sharp stench of protective herbs, and a garden that smells like it's been keeping secrets for decades. Asha is running from her own front door with nothing but instinct and a coat full of charms — and the night outside Tanglewood Manor is thicker with watchers than with stars.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, le...
Published: Apr 21, 2026Duration: 5m 41s
Chapter 20: Bare Hands and a Blank Brain – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
A wizard on her doorstep, a ritual knife that isn't where her hands expect it to be, and muscle memory running miles ahead of her brain. Asha's body remembers how to fight long before her mind remembers why — and this time the thing hunting her has a face, a name she can almost catch, and absolutely no intention of leaving Tanglewood empty-handed.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you ne...
Published: Apr 20, 2026Duration: 7m 32s
Chapter 19: Cold Evil Ink – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
Iron bars humming, a faceless nurse in the doorway, and a rehearsed apology that might just buy another day. Nicky is trapped somewhere that shouldn't exist, counting footsteps in the corridor and ink-cold promises under her skin — and the only currency she has left is patience she isn't sure she can afford.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, leave a...
Published: Apr 19, 2026Duration: 4m 44s
Chapter 18: The Dusk Reapers – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
A late-night phone call, a high priestess with grave eyes, and a woman somewhere in the city who won't survive the week without them. The Starfall Coven has a new case — and an old enemy whose name tastes like ash in Asha's mouth even though she can't remember ever hearing it. The Dusk Reapers are rising, and they're hunting on her side of the veil.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the sh...
Published: Apr 18, 2026Duration: 7m 51s
Chapter 17: The Cursebreaker – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
Group meditations in foreign tongues, whispered incantations, and a title Asha never asked for. When the high priestess names her the Cursebreaker, the word lands like an anchor in water she can't see the bottom of — a job, a destiny, and a warning all at once. The grimoire already knew. Asha's just the last to find out.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If yo...
Published: Apr 17, 2026Duration: 7m 20s
Chapter 16: The Starfall Coven – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
Candlelight on dusty yoga mats, incense curling through the rafters, and a circle of women who know Asha's name when she does not. In a shadowed studio above the city, Asha is welcomed back by a coven she can't remember joining — and a purple-haired witch whose hurt is as sharp as her smile. The Starfall sisters have been waiting a long time for their cursebreaker to come home.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern....
Published: Apr 16, 2026Duration: 8m 11s
Chapter 15: The Names She Can Almost Remember – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
A list in the margins of an old planner, faces in photographs that feel borrowed, and voices she catches herself answering before she knows why. Asha's old life is crowding in at the edges — and the Cursebreaker, whatever she was before, is starting to wake up.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, leave a rating — it genuinely helps other list...
Published: Apr 15, 2026Duration: 18m 29s
Chapter 14: Small Kitchen Miracles – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
Steam on the window, rosemary under her fingernails, and a kettle that boils a beat too fast when she isn't paying attention. Magic, Asha is learning, doesn't always announce itself — sometimes it just makes the tea and waits.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, leave a rating — it genuinely helps other listeners find the podcast.Le...
Published: Apr 14, 2026Duration: 2m 18s
Chapter 13: A Shape Moving at the Window – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
A shadow where there shouldn't be one, the dog's hackles up before the porch light flickers, and Tanglewood Manor watching its own perimeter. Something in the hedge remembers Asha's name — and whatever it wants, it's patient enough to come back for.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, leave a rating — it genuinely helps other listeners find the podcast.<b...
Published: Apr 13, 2026Duration: 4m 30s
Chapter 12: The Hum Under Her Skin – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
A prickle at the base of her spine, a restlessness she can't walk off, and a light that flickers only when she's in the room. Asha's body is telling her things her mind hasn't learned how to hear yet — and the sparks, when they come, are tired of being politely ignored.Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern.Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you're enjoying Asha's story, leave a ra...
Published: Apr 12, 2026Duration: 6m 46s
Chapter 11: The Grimoire Begins to Answer – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comPages that turn themselves, a voice at the edge of hearing, and ink that knows more than Asha does. Somewhere between a book and a waking dream, the grimoire starts giving back what the accident took — in pieces, in riddles, and in its own unhurried time.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Fu...
Published: Apr 11, 2026Duration: 6m 34s
Chapter 10: Double Digits and the First Real Wall – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comDouble digits and the first real wall. Asha confronts the gap between what people say she was and what she can feel herself becoming. The sparks have gotten bolder. So has she.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and the rest of the Cursebreaker series are available at www.jt...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 8m 37s
Chapter 09: A Thread Ending In a Hand That Isn't Hers – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comInstructions she doesn't remember giving. A favour she doesn't remember owing. Asha traces a thread backwards through her own life and finds it ends in a hand that isn't hers. Urban fantasy with teeth, chapter by chapter.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and the rest of the Cursebreaker se...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 9m 54s
Chapter 08: A Face From Before the ICU – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comA name, whispered for the first time since the ICU. A face that should be ancient history but is sitting across from her at breakfast. Asha's amnesia is not protection — it is a runway for everything she forgot to fear.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and the rest of t...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 5m 32s
Chapter 07: Cataloguing What Her Body Can Do – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comEveryone who shows up for her knows something she doesn't. Asha starts cataloguing: what her body can do, what her mind lets slip, what the sparks respond to. The Cursebreaker series names its first real threat.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and the rest of the Cursebreaker series ar...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 13m 32s
Chapter 06: Tests the Edges of Her New Life – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comCoffee. Questions. A number she doesn't remember dialing. Asha tests the edges of her new life and finds them thinner than paper. Chapter 6 of The Dusk Reapers widens the world around her — and begins to name the things in it.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and the rest of t...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 5m 31s
Chapter 05: The First Time the Magic Isn't Accident – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comThe first time the magic doesn't feel like accident. A room rearranges itself around her breath. The voices take shape as suggestions she almost wants to follow. And a knock at the door changes what 'safe' means for the rest of Book 1.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and th...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 7m 47s
Chapter 04: Paperwork and Pretenses – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comPaperwork, pretenses, and a name the world keeps saying to her like it should mean something. Asha learns to lie by omission, and learns the harder lesson: some things under her skin are not content to be forgotten.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day.Full audiobooks and the rest of the Cu...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 5m 12s
Chapter 03: Strangers Wearing Old Intimacy – Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers (Urban Fantasy Audiobook)
This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.comThe ward is quiet but Asha isn't. Every corner of her new life is a stranger's face claiming old intimacy, and every mirror is a question she can't answer. The sparks are still there. The voices are still there. And something new has started keeping rhythm with her pulse.If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit subscribe — a new chapter drops every single day....
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 7m 41s