Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

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**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/**

Justin Fife is an audiobook narrator and voice actor, and he can be found on Threads @Justin.fife

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0:00.0	People's Postcode Lottery's Big Spring win is back. In our April draws, you and your neighbors could win a share of 25.4 million pounds. Own or rent doesn't matter. If your door is in the draw, then you're in with a chance to win. You just need to sign up before midnight on the 31st of March. Who knows? You could win a share of 25.4 million pounds.
0:21.8	So get your door in the drawer.
0:24.3	People's Postcode Lottery manage lotteries on behalf of good causes.
0:26.8	18 plus conditions apply.
0:28.0	Play responsibly not available in Northern Ireland.
0:33.3	These aren't the stories your mother told you.
0:35.9	No.
0:37.3	These are the other stories.
0:47.0	Today's episode of The Other Stories is Nick, written by Georgia Cook and narrated by Justin Fife.
0:56.2	He learned later, much later, too late to do him any good.
1:01.3	The old adage often given to tales of fairy magic and fey boons,
1:05.6	that gold will always transform into acorns and dust come morning,
1:10.4	that babies will remain wailing in their cribs unchanged for decades,
1:15.5	after being bestowed upon joyous mothers,
1:18.1	that the fairy folk have a cruel and unusual sense of humor,
1:22.5	and their offerings too often sting.
1:25.9	Nobody believed him when he told them what he had witnessed that night,
1:29.7	between trees thick with summer mist,
1:32.4	the moon hanging corn yellow in a bright sky with stars,
1:36.0	when all the world had seemed caught on the cusp of fever.
1:39.9	How a woman more beautiful than Aphrodite herself had appeared in the forest,
1:44.4	whispering words of such love, such adoration and charm,
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