The Dispositionist

Episodes 1 - 3

By: Donald Beavers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Something a little different....

The Dispositionist is set in the Galactic Office of Final Disposition (GOFD), a planet-sized bureaucratic entity orbiting a dead star. It's the place where unresolved everything goes: cases too embarrassing to close, objects too strange to recycle, data too contradictory to delete, even misclassified people. Nothing is ever destroyed, merely filed away in a state of perpetual pending action. Our hero, Marlin Quell, isn't a detective, cop, or spy. He's a Disposition Analyst (Third Class), whose job is simply to assess these forgotten items and determine their "final disposition"—a task akin to deciding where to file infinity. Armed only with a worn ID badge, endless curiosity, a knack for wordplay, and absolutely zero authority, Quell tackles his colossal backlog one bizarre item at a time. Each book/episode starts with a seemingly mundane (if absurd) filing error: a toaster claiming sentience, a missing person filed under "office furniture," a time-looping insurance claim. But as Quell meticulously follows the paper trail (often literally, through archives containing geological layers of forms), he inevitably uncovers something far more significant: murder, political corruption, illegal cloning rings, sentient viruses plotting coups, etc. He solves mysteries not through force or deduction in the traditional sense, but by being the only person willing to actually read the instructions and notice the contradictions others ignore.

Includes the first three episodes!

• Episode 1: Misfiled: A death certificate for someone still alive leads Quell to a phantom office floor where bureaucratic "errors" are intentionally manufactured, and murder is the ultimate form of redaction.
  
• Episode 2: Classification: Personnel (Inert): Quell receives a request to disposition a "long-term inactive personnel file," only to discover the file refers not to a former employee, but to a perfectly preserved, unidentified body discovered sealed inside a supposedly empty filing cabinet decades ago.
  
• Episode 3: Identical: Two individuals with identical DNA, memories, and debts claim to be the original. Quell must determine who's the copy before a temporal experiment unravels... or someone erases the redundancy permanently.

In a galaxy where nothing is ever truly discarded, Marlin Quell is working a bureaucratic graveyard for unsolved cases, abandoned objects, and misfiled lives. Armed with a dry wit, a tenacious mind, and absolutely no authority, Quell’s job is to figure out where unresolved anomalies belong. But every so often, a misfile leads him to murder, corruption, or cosmic-scale coverups—making him the galaxy’s most reluctant (and underpaid) detective