103.4 Goth Juliet

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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103.4 Goth Juliet

Years after her rendezvous with Romeo, Juliet returns to the Capulet mansion. A feast is afoot – and it will take more than kisses to still her newly awakened hunger!

Written by Dan Muenzer (danmuenzer.substack.com)

Narrated and produced by James Barnett AKA Jimmy Horrors (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)

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

And Falésia 2 by Enough Records

And Duncan Muggleton (https://temporalrecordings.wordpress.com)

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

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

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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.
0:03.0	No, these are the other stories.
0:07.0	Today's episode of The Other Stories is Gough Juliet, written by Dan Wentzer, and narrated and produced by James Barnett, aka Jimmy Horace.
0:31.3	The Capulet's Feast Tonight, McCutio said.
0:35.7	Even in the midst of death.
0:38.5	He lofted the torch so that the ivy played like green flame along the orchard wall.
0:44.2	He wore a jester's motley woven of silk from whose ends clung tassels of still-living worms.
0:50.9	Upon his duel sped death, Queen Mab had re-knit her favourite Votary's ligatures.
0:56.0	Now he stalked the night with Juliet.
0:59.0	Empty of all save the bitterness that is the residue of vanished laughter.
1:04.0	The plague of both your houses, he muttered.
1:08.0	Juliet wore a fancy mask pressed against her crumbled face and a long finereal gown.
1:14.1	If she harboured any regrets against the time she had been a solar beauty, one could not
1:18.8	glean it from her eyes, which lifelessly quivered like two drops of mercury.
1:24.6	As distant music summoned to dance, Juliet felt something turned deep within her, so she thrust
1:30.3	a nail between ribs and speared out a rat.
1:33.3	"'I shouldn't keep Romeo waiting,' Macucio said.
1:38.3	"'You know he doesn't like to be left alone.'
1:41.3	Juliet sensed herself like a spring and in half a second was atop the wall.
1:46.9	The same her lover had once ascended years ago.
1:50.7	From its height she could see her family's mansion ablaze behind the sycamores.
1:55.6	Further on, in low lamps and curling smoke, Verona lay sleeping. The steeple of St. Peter thrust its finger toward
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