It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Dreamtails for dark nights.

Good evening, listener. You're listening to chilling tales for dark nights.

On tonight's edition, we invite you to leave behind your safe reality and descend with us into the frightening depths of the most terrifying imaginations with two audio adaptations of frightening fiction about brutal beasts.

I'm your host Steve Taylor and tonight I'll be your guide as we traverse the dimly lit corridors of your darkest dreams.

Get ready for a double header of fright because joining us tonight to help bring to life the terrifying fiction of Matt Marteneck is voice talent Michael Klein.

Now get your ticket ready, take your seat in our theater of the minds and brace yourself. It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Our first tale this evening is written by Matt Marteneck and is brought to us by the creators of Velox Books and is performed by Michael Klein.

They say it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved it all, but to see the one you love most in the world ripped apart by a supernatural creature is something else entirely.

Now without further ado, I present to you bite.

It's teeth like razors. This I knew from the very moment the creature began to tear into my wife's body.

The last 15 years of my life ripped apart by some fucking freaking nature all before my very eyes.

Shock, surprise, terror. Those are just bullshit words. Placeholders or something syllables could never hope to accurately capture.

Time seizes at a moment like that. I couldn't tell you if the mulling lasted two minutes or two hours.

Well, it was a stupid idea. Something I came up with, of course. Alicia wasn't down with it at all. She was such a homebody, completely content with the life she had.

Oh yes, the life of a wife, the schedule, the organization, the predictability, it was all hers. But I, on the other hand, I wanted it a little more.

I always tried to get Alicia out of her box. Whenever I could, I attempted to break up the monotony. I would do little things, you know, spur the moment surprises she would not expect.

Day trip here, stay overnight there, romantic little things out of the blue. I think I got more of a kick out of it than she did.

Getting stuck in a rut was nowhere to be found in my day plan or life. I knew she wasn't a big outdoors person, but I decided to set up a camping trip.

Get some fishing in, you know, some late night cuddles by the dim light of the lantern seemed all right by me.

Unfortunately, when I sprung it on her, it was met with one word. Really? Ouch.

I'll be at a cold response at first. Alicia eventually decided she'd give it a try. She was one hell of a sport, and I truly appreciated that about her.

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