102.3 One with the Death Card
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
102.3 One with the Death Card
When the Death card attaches itself to Ethan's fate, the only way out is through.
Written by Erin Brandt Filliter
Narrated and Produced by James Barnett (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)
With music by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/)
And Duncan Muggleton (https://temporalrecordings.wordpress.com)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
And sound effects provided by Ghosthack (https://www.ghosthack.de/) and Freesound.org
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:03.6 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:17.4 | Today's episode of The Other Stories is One with the Death card, written by Erin Brandt |
| 0:22.9 | Philate and narrated and produced by James Barnett, aka Jimmy Horace. |
| 0:30.9 | The psychic flipped the final card of my reading. |
| 0:34.3 | A shiny black humanoid figure with a canine skull for a face, a sinking ship and burning |
| 0:40.0 | building in the background. |
| 0:42.2 | Its talland foot smothered a similar but smaller creature surrounded by smoke. |
| 0:48.0 | Death. |
| 0:49.6 | This card usually denotes endings and new beginnings, she said through a thick Eastern European accent. |
| 0:57.0 | But getting something different for you, Mr. Ethan. |
| 1:01.0 | You, your fate, is entwined with this card. |
| 1:05.0 | Her face drained all colour, and her eyes rolled around in their sockets. She moaned and thrashed in her moth-eaten armchair. |
| 1:14.6 | At first, I thought it was an act. |
| 1:17.5 | Marketing tactic for a new client to make me believe and want to keep coming back. |
| 1:22.9 | But when her seizing stopped, she looked at me with tears in her eyes and tucked the single card into my palm. |
| 1:29.8 | She tossed the rest of the deck into the fire, igniting an impressive blaze of green flames. |
| 1:35.4 | Coloured, I assumed, and the dyes in the plasticised paper. |
| 1:39.9 | Without asking for payment, she ushered me out of her studio. |
| 1:43.9 | Not a sustainable business model, I thought, as I flipped up my colour against the biting |
| 1:48.2 | autumn wind and walked home. |
| 1:50.6 | By the time I climbed the steps of my apartment building, my chilled fingers gripped the paper |
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