101.3 Intermission - Re-Animated
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
101.3 Intermission - Re-Animated
A young loner is visited by a strange extra-terrestrial beacon that he is convinced is a warning for a personal tragedy that he will soon have to confront head on, even if his idea of how the linear passage of time works is changed forever.
Written by Ben Errington ([https://x.com/ben_errington](https://twitter.com/ben_errington))
Narrated by James Barnett (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)
Produced by Karl Hughes ([https://x.com/karlhughes](https://twitter.com/karlhughes))
With music by Chris Zabriskie (https://chriszabriskie.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/)
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**With debut novel Ten Tales of the Human Condition, novella Dye Pack, and short story collection Death Throes under his belt, Ben Errington’s fast-paced, chaotic, cinematic style has earned him many plaudits.
He is one quarter of digital story studio, Hawk & Cleaver; co-founder of iTunes-busting fiction podcast The Other Stories, co-creator of the post-apocalyptic comic book El Marvo and co-host of horror movie discussion podcast Horror Hangout. Follow Ben on Twitter at @ben_errington**
**James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast and After The Gloaming. Search for them wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.JamesBarnettCreative.com**
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:03.2 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:15.1 | Today's episode of The Other Stories is Intermission Reanimated, written by Ben Erington and narrated by James Barnett, aka Jimmy Horace. |
| 0:28.6 | I've got used to hiding. I've been doing it for most my life. Luckily, I'm a nobody, |
| 0:41.5 | no hobbies or interests and not a single friend. All I have are my linear days, from work to home |
| 0:49.9 | and back again, eating and sleeping and masturbating, and staring aimlessly out of windows and into |
| 0:57.0 | screens and at my sunken eyes in the mirror. I know how it got this bad. I drifted into |
| 1:03.1 | mediocrity and obscurity, and there was nothing I could have done to stop it. I slipped down into |
| 1:09.5 | the mundane depths and I've been wallowing there for years, |
| 1:13.6 | not enjoying it, which would be ridiculous, but living with it. Not finding it hard to get up in the morning or to smile at a colleague, |
| 1:23.6 | or to tell the shop assistant to have a good weekend. None of them know how pathetic my existence |
| 1:29.7 | had come to be. They wouldn't be interested anyway. If I was hit by a car while crossing a road, |
| 1:37.2 | my ID left in my wallet at home, or if I died of heart or liver failure on my sofa within those |
| 1:42.5 | familiar four walls, I'm not sure anybody |
| 1:45.6 | would notice. I didn't go to the office for four whole days once, and I felt nervous about |
| 1:51.8 | calling in to tell my supervisor that I was feeling unwell. |
| 1:59.4 | When I returned, nobody said a word. |
| 2:04.2 | My pay slip was the same as it had always been at the end of the month, and there were no |
| 2:08.2 | repercussions about my absence. |
| 2:10.7 | It was like I was a ghost. |
| 2:12.9 | That's why I felt no fear when I saw the lights again. |
| 2:16.6 | I heard the voices that sounded like a choir of a thousand children singing words from |
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