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Yes, I can agree that they are hit or miss. I did not like the "Winterlord" story from last week, but was very impressed with the emotionally moving "Come To My Arms My Beamish Boy" this week. I thought "Bait" was pretty solid, but, yes, gruesome.
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Well, that's the unfortunate problem with "twists" in the modern age, they're almost impossible to pull off. The "bait" was the least of the story for me, liked the setting and voice mostly.
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biLL"
I've had THE GLASS BEAD GAME on my to read list for years, but that's still probably 5 years away (J.G. Ballard's recent death has moved up my "finish Ballard" plan from later this year to this summer instead)
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and the main page is here
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If you are a commuter or like to listen to audio books while you washes dishes or clean or whatever, please check us out.
Many new and interesting stories in the upcoming year!
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A couple... their son... a terrible accident... and then another... and then...
it's "Lives" by John Grant
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A young boy, a giant creature from the past...
It's "Terrible Lizard King" by Nathaniel Lee
Re: Dinosaurs - “Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches, these first nightmares of Life.”
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, THE FUTURE EVE
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The wise fool may not be sane... happy April Fools Day!
It's "Murdock The Nobody" by Kate Jonez
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Some people trapped in a room... and the things that are keeping them there...
It's "The Horror Of Their Deeds To View" by Lizanne Herd!
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Pseudopod - this week's episode:
Mexico... and a hole in the ground... a big hole...
It's "Top Of The Heap" by Nathan Robinson
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What (not who) killed the Electric Car....
It's "The Sound Of Gears" by Ferret Steinmetz
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A trenchant dispatch from the ever-ongoing zombie apocalypse
It's "Man Eat Man" by Mike Irwin
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3 short short stories of still lives and exhibitions: a tired hunter in a room full of paintings, a famous autopsy victim who's in complete control, and the real secret behind those "Little Miss Tiara" competitions...
It's "FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS VII: Tableaux & Display"
featuring stories by Kirsty Logan, David Steffen and Caroline Yoachim.
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A terrible "visage malfunction" plagues a busy housewife...
It's "On Being Mandy" by Sandra M. Odell
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A mysterious DVD containing the last ever installment of the notorious "cretins exploit drunken women" video series....
It's "Girls Gone Insane" by John Jasper Owens
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The tender story of a professor and his fungus...
It's "Tippler's Bane" by Evelyn Wang
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A song that holds the world together, those that try to silence it, and a man in between...
It's "The Song Of Prague" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
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Yet another dispatch from the cultural metaphor that is the zombie apocalypse, this time with some notes from the opposition...
It's "Association" by Eddie Borey
Please listen if you feel so inclined. Please donate if you liked it.
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Nothing more horrible than a man dying in a room of the hospital and a long-held family secret. This one's a toughie....
It's "I.C.U." by Tim Burke
Please listen if you feel so inclined. Please donate if you liked it. Even a pittance will help immeasurably.
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FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS VIII: Warped Love
Two roadside shrines of very different types in "In Memoriam" by Matthew Chrulew, Matthew Funk warns about the slippery slope of abuse in "Pieces", and "Home Is Where The Heart Is" by Bint Arab literalizes an old saw.
Please donate even a pittance if enjoyed...
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A dying mother leaves some important letters for her daughter, with instructions not to open them all at once...
It's "Dearest Daughter" by Kate Marshall.
Donations always appreciated.
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Below, an infected city, fraught with danger - above, mysterious signals flash in windows...
It's "Lights" by Jack Westlake.
Donations float the nations...
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Pseudopod - last week's episode:
A tourist discovers the value of tradition when it comes to trolls....
It's "The Talisman" by Heather McDougal.
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Pseudopod - last Friday's episode:
Step on a crack, break your mother's back, but don't EVER cross...
"The Line" by Grady J. Gratt
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The worst (and most gratifying) job in the world...
It's "Songs For Dead Hearts" by Mandana Faridani
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Love means always having to make sure the dead stay buried....
It's "In Bloom" by Caspian Gray.
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It's "The 7 Garages of Kevin Simpson" by Alan Baxter
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It's "Corps Cadvres" by Neil John Buchanan
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Malformed babies and old time religion.
It's "Bruise For Bruise" by Robert Davies
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The sad but true story behind a double child murder...
It's "Blue Eyes" by Jay Caselberg.
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A primitive tribe and the man whose role it is to consume things...
It's "The Eater" by Michael J. DeLuca
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A man and his upstairs neighbor whom he HATES...
It's "Killing Merwin Remis" by Jason Helmandollar
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An old man's shattered hopes and dreams
It's "Kavar The Rat" by lauded Belgian surrealist/fantasist Thomas Owen.
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A barren island, no food, and two starving lovers. And some fungus...
It's the 1907 classic, "The Voice In The Night" by William Hope Hodgson, celebrating our 250th episode!
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A young boy with an abusive father and a secret in the shed...
It's "Yardwork" by Bruce Blake.
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How high would you climb to save someone?
It's "The Cord" by Chris Lewis Carter.
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I am, he is, you are, all... "Trying To Stay Dead" by Richard S. Crawford.
Oh, and "Happy Halloween"!
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“For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.”
Aino Kallas, WOLF BRIDE (1928)