103.1 But Not For Love

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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103.1 But Not For Love

Duke Senior is dead. Orlando and Rosalind find themselves on he run once again, as a terrifying slasher stalks the Forest of Arden.

Written by William Shaw (https://williamshawwriter.wordpress.com )

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://x.com/georgiacooked)

Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr)

With music by Epic Stock Media (https://epicstockmedia.com/)

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

And sound effects provided by Soundly.org

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William Shaw is a writer from Sheffield, currently living in the USA. His writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and Doctor Who Magazine. Check out his website at https://williamshawwriter.wordpress.com

**Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for publications such as Baffling, Vastarien Lit, and Flame Tree press, as well as the Doctor Who range with Big Finish. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/**

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0:00.0	These aren't the stories your mother told you.
0:03.0	No, these are the other stories.
0:07.0	Today's episode of The Other Stories is
0:17.0	But Not for Love, written by William Shaw and narrated by Georgia Cook.
0:30.3	Duke Senior was not a young man, but still his death was remarkable. He had survived a coup, several years of rough living in icy woods,
0:42.0	the loss and sudden recovery of his daughter with barely a frown.
0:47.0	But now, someone or something had succeeded where vengeful brothers and woodland predators had failed.
0:55.9	The Duke was dead, and what's more, murdered.
1:00.9	He was found by a chambermaid in the humid middle hours of a summer's morning.
1:06.1	The stench of rotting meat was overpowering and only grew as the other servants picked through the wreckage.
1:12.2	His left arm dangled over the door of his wardrobe.
1:15.7	His right foot nestled in the unmade bed.
1:18.6	The flesh was waxy and miscoloured, spotted all over with small black marks.
1:24.3	His head lay in pride of place in the centre of the room, and on the wall behind it, a message in blood.
1:31.8	The tyrant duke lies proudly slain, a fever creeps into the brain, and while our rulers
1:38.3	dance their reels, they know not they shall make my meals. The servants looked at one another, pale and grim-faced.
1:47.6	One thing was clear.
1:49.6	Young Orlando was in big trouble.
1:55.9	Young Orlando, however, was already several miles away.
2:00.5	He had happened to call on his father-in-law
2:02.5	early that morning, and had straightaway realized not only the horror of the scene, but the immediate
2:08.2	danger it presented. He had, of course, an alibi. He had been all last night, as every night,
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