These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

We at the other stories are looking for that special woman, someone with a soft voice who will whisper terrible things to us.

What I'm saying is we need more female narrators for this show.

The female narrators we have are incredible, but there have been times when we've had to give female-led stories to male narrators,

and they've done their best to contort themselves into new and interesting places to hit those higher notes, but some of them have been damaged in the process.

If you're a female and the narrator, or if you're female and you want to give narration a go, then you can email us at Kessdi Editor at gmail.com, or go to hawk and cleaver.com forward slash submissions and drop us a line we want to

hear from you. Today's episode is For the Greater Good, written by Daniel Wilcox and narrated by

Ian McEwen.

There seems to be a flaw in the human condition, a set of faulty wiring, if you will.

For decades, nay centuries, us as humans have created the impossible and live to regret our decisions.

Some inventions have revolutionized the world.

Plains, boats, medicines, the television.

Some inventions we only discover years later are either harmful for our health

or have military applications that have caused greater destruction than our

forebears ever thought possible. Guns, planes, medicines, smoking, the television. We're an impatient

breed, us humans. We don't wait to see the results. We look into our

tiny windows and never look beyond our own perspectives into the wider global timeline. After

all, why should we bother when our own lives are so fleeting?

It wasn't altogether that long ago that the treatments the media had termed the best thing that could

happen to mankind turned sour. All fruit will rot in the end when left out in the dying sun. And the miracle

cure that should have saved us all, well, let's just say that the long-term effects weren't

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