With travel difficult and gathering in big groups discouraged, Christmas will likely be a little strange this year so Fictions is presenting a series of letters written to things that will be missed most during the upcoming festive season.

Remember when your phone wasn’t with you 24/7? When you used it to make actual calls? Or you sat there, looking at it, waiting desperately for it to ring? Fictions is going back in time, with two stories about the telephone, family, and real connection.

Remember when your phone wasn’t with you 24/7? When you used it to make actual calls? Or you sat there, looking at it, waiting desperately for it to ring? Fictions is going back in time, with two stories about the telephone, family, and real connection.

Fictions presents two short stories of imperfect women — women saying the wrong things, doing the wrong things, and certainly not fitting into any sort of "good girl" mold.

Fictions presents two short stories of imperfect women — women saying the wrong things, doing the wrong things, and certainly not fitting into any sort of "good girl" mold.

A country pub, a regional hospital and a courtroom. Fictions presents three short thrillers set in regional Australia, very late at night.

A country pub, a regional hospital and a courtroom. Fictions presents three short thrillers set in regional Australia, very late at night.

For a young Indigenous mother, an ugly incident at a football game has meant time in jail and a life-time ban from her son's footy matches. Now she wants the ban lifted.

For a young Indigenous mother, an ugly incident at a football game has meant time in jail and a life-time ban from her son's footy matches. Now she wants the ban lifted.

The true story of two actors arrested on a busy Melbourne street loading prop guns into the boot of their car. Was this an act of sheer stupidity or were they planning something more sinister?

The true story of two actors arrested on a busy Melbourne street loading prop guns into the boot of their car. Was this an act of sheer stupidity or were they planning something more sinister?

People visit lost property offices in hope of finding missing precious items, often overwhelmed with joy when these things miraculously show up. The Vault is the story of a woman chasing that feeling.

People visit lost property offices in hope of finding missing precious items, often overwhelmed with joy when these things miraculously show up. The Vault is the story of a woman chasing that feeling.

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, this rings a little too true in this competitive mother daughter comedy.

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, this rings a little too true in this competitive mother daughter comedy.

Two short stories that explore the way animals reflect what's going on in our heads and in our worlds. And it's not always cute and fluffy.  

Two short stories that explore the way animals reflect what's going on in our heads and in our worlds. And it's not always cute and fluffy.  

The chronicles are seven short works of audio fiction written by top North American playwrights, and they capture the spirit of our distanced, disorienting and deranged times — with wonderfully weird results. You can listen to PlayME and the Quarantine Chronicles on the CBC Listen app or wherever you get your podcasts.

The chronicles are seven short works of audio fiction written by top North American playwrights, and they capture the spirit of our distanced, disorienting and deranged times — with wonderfully weird results. You can listen to PlayME and the Quarantine Chronicles on the CBC Listen app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Two young lawyers return to the town where they grew up to surf a wave of ice addiction, defending a generation of hopeless junkies from the law and from themselves. But ice doesn't only tempt the weak and the poor...

Two young lawyers return to the town where they grew up to surf a wave of ice addiction, defending a generation of hopeless junkies from the law and from themselves. But ice doesn't only tempt the weak and the poor...

In Sate, a water conference turns nasty when its Indigenous participants demand justice.

In Sate, a water conference turns nasty when its Indigenous participants demand justice.

A story of poetry slams, hipster beer and the wild chase to bring a slam poet to justice — poetic justice, that is.

A story of poetry slams, hipster beer and the wild chase to bring a slam poet to justice — poetic justice, that is.