"Work Sets You Free" by David Barnett is an original short story featuring the protagonist of the forthcoming novel Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl. Gideon is a young fisherman in Yorkshire, England, in an alternate 1890, who embarks on a journey to find Captain Lucian Trigger, the famed Hero of the Empire, to deal with a mystery plaguing his home village. 

This story takes place as the naïve Gideon sets off for London, but on the way encounters a very dark side to the British Empire's insatiable hunger for resources....

Performed by Terence Aselford, Bradley Smith, Michael Glenn, Christopher Scheeren, David Coyne, Elizabeth Jernigan, Ren Kasey, Eva Wilhelm, Richard Rohan, Michael John Casey, Christopher Walker, Nanette Savard, James Konicek, Kimberly Gilbert, Thomas Penny, Todd Scofield.