105.3 Pilgrimage
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
105.3 Pilgrimage
A week of hitchhiking across the country to catch a Brütal Füture gig has left Selina broke, alone, exhausted – and just a few hours too late. Chance provides a unique opportunity to meet her favourite frontman, but this encounter takes an unexpected turn into horror… and hope.
Written by Matthew R. Davis (matthewrdavisfiction.wordpress.com)
Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://x.com/georgiacooked)
Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr )
With music by Cryptic Scenery (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/cryptic-scenery/)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
And sound effects provided by https://getsoundly.com/
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
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Matthew R. Davis is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author and musician from Adelaide, South Australia, with almost one hundred short stories and five books published thus far. 2025 will see the release of Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe (JournalStone), On Track... The Cure: Every Album, Every Song (Sonicbond Publishing), and Ribspreader: The Novelisation and the Screenplay (Paroxysm Press). He shares his life with the award-winning artist Meg Wright, aka Red Wallflower. Find out more at matthewrdavisfiction.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. |
| 0:03.6 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:15.2 | Today's episode of The Other Stories is Pilgrimage, written by Matthew R. Davis and narrated by Georgia Cook. |
| 0:29.1 | By the time Selena arrived in Fortitude Valley, Saturday night was declining into Sunday |
| 0:34.7 | morning, bright smears of color surrounded and swallowed her, ringing with the joyful cacophony of a city well into Sunday morning. Bright smears of colour surrounded and swallowed her, |
| 0:38.6 | ringing with the joyful cacophony of a city well into its cups. She huddled into her black |
| 0:43.2 | denim jacket and watched her battered boots mark off the steps, wondering how many she'd taken |
| 0:48.0 | since the beginning. Her body rang hollow, bone weary, but that fatigue was as nothing beside the sickening surety that she had |
| 0:55.5 | missed the moment. She'd come all this way, given up everything she had, and for nothing. |
| 1:01.9 | Raucus laughter erupted nearby as a group of young men spilled out of a nightclub. |
| 1:06.8 | Selina swerved across the footpath and paused by a lamp post, |
| 1:10.3 | letting it carve the wave of exuberant flesh into two rivers of sweat and beer that |
| 1:14.3 | tumbled by on either side. She kept her head down, but no one in the boisterous party bothered to look at her. |
| 1:20.5 | When they'd crossed the street, she got moving again. So close now, and yet too late. |
| 1:26.9 | Seven days and 700 kilometers ago, this had seemed like the best idea Mickey ever had. |
| 1:33.3 | When she'd unveiled her plan, dark eyes alight with excitement, fidgeting fingers brushing back black bangs. |
| 1:39.3 | Selena had agreed straight away. Why not? |
| 1:43.3 | The lives were already teetering on the brink of oblivion, |
| 1:46.1 | and they had so little left to lose. |
| 1:48.7 | They were unemployed, crashing on a succession of couches, |
| 1:52.2 | burning the bridges they were trapped on with no way to pay the toll. |
| 1:55.9 | Fuck it! |
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