S2: In the Pines – Episode 14: On Death Island (Patreon)

Give a group of boys from anywhere a backyard, a stretch of woods,  hell, a vacant lot even — and you can watch it rise to a place of  hallowed glory. A patch of trees in between houses becomes an ancient  battlefield where two sides of some long-remembered, or forgotten,  conflict plays out again and again after school hours. An empty, fallow  field becomes an arena or tournament ground where rasslin, foot racin  and some form of ball-related sport are contested and pushed to the  highest form of the game. Friendships and rivalries will rise, fall and  be remembered in legend forever and ever. You give a group of boys not  yet concerned with matters of what's in their britches just yet a place of their own, and it will outshine Rome in the eyes of its citizens.

Written by Steve Shell
Sound design by Steve Shell
Narrated by Steve Shell
Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood
Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards