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The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

100.4 6=1

The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

Luke Kondor

Drama, Science Fiction, Nosleep, Fiction, Scary Stories, Horror Fiction, Horror Audio Drama

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

100.4 6=1

When faced with extinction, humanity’s last hope rests with a disgraced scientist and a secretive cult.

Written by Richard Reynolds (groundzerocomics.co.uk)

Narrated by Luke Kondor (https://www.lukekondor.com)

Produced by Chidozie Uzochukwu (www.x.com/studio55audios)

With music by Spheriá (https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusic)

And Andrew kn (https://soundcloud.com/andrew-kn)

And Myuu (https://www.thedarkpiano.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Jasmine Arch, Joshua Boucher, and his eyeless ones Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty

And Joshua Boucher for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Richard Reynolds is the owner and operator of Ground Zero Comics, a small comic shop in Mansfield, England, but he writes and creates his own comics whenever he can find the time. You can read some of his work via the ‘free comics’ sidebar at groundzerocomics.co.uk

Luke Kondor started writing on his computer in his early teens and never looked back… and now he has very sore eyes. He also runs and produces a short story podcast called The Other Stories, which has amassed over 11-million downloads and has a monthly listenership of ~100k downloads. Currently he lives and works on a dining room table in the middle of Sherwood Forest. For more head to www.lukekondor.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time to get lost.

0:03.7

Listen to the new soundtrack from Disney's Moana Tooth.

0:07.3

Because here's the potential to travel the distance.

0:10.9

I've been existential and lost to existence.

0:14.6

And there is no map to your destination.

0:18.4

No explanation to solve this equation

0:21.7

in cinemas now

0:23.9

these are the other stories are the, these are the other stories.

0:39.3

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

0:48.3

Today's episode of The Other Stories is 6 equals 1, written by Richard Reynolds and narrated by Luke Condor.

1:00.0

The designation of the asteroid that would destroy humanity was 2-004 MN4, or Apophis to some.

1:09.0

It missed Earth by a cosmic fraction back in 2029, but in 2036 the Earth

1:13.6

wasn't so lucky. Apophis should only have caused localized devastation, but increasingly accurate

1:19.9

forecasting predicted it hitting Yellowstone Park, itself an active supervolcano.

1:26.3

The result, most authorities agreed, would be extinction-level ecological devastation.

1:32.0

If this wasn't tragic enough, Don Al Green had recently suffered disgrace and rejection,

1:37.8

she was at rock bottom when the doorbell rang.

1:40.5

"'Kim?' he said, after taking a beat to stare at his long-lost friend and the old man she was

1:47.0

with.

1:48.0

God, Kim, he sobbed.

1:51.0

I've missed you so much.

1:54.0

Everything's been so hard.

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