81.5 Bag O Bones
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Bag O Bones
'You wouldn't look at Ole Jimper twice, as he totes his black sack around the city, but he'll look at you. Once.'
Written by Paul Currion (www.currion.net)
Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/georgiacooked)
Edited by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://temporalrecordings.wordpress.com)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
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Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Listen, it's headed this way. Can you hear it? |
| 0:04.0 | That is the unmistakable sound of a door sensation sweeping the nation. |
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| 0:55.3 | The Open University, the future is open. |
| 1:03.1 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 1:06.1 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 1:18.8 | Okay. These are the other stories. Today's episode of the other stories is |
| 1:21.5 | Bagger Bones, written by Paul Currian and narrated by Georgia Cook. |
| 1:43.3 | See him, old Jimper, with his black sack, coming round the river, skirting the idea of throwing himself into the water, talking himself out of it, weeping all the way. |
| 1:49.8 | Maybe you smell him first. |
| 1:52.3 | Old Jimper holds that bathing is a security concern, and so he doesn't hold with bathing at all. |
| 1:59.1 | What's in Old Jumper's black sack, you ask? |
| 2:03.0 | It's bones, old Jimper tells the young police officer. |
| 2:07.5 | Just bones in Old Jimper's sack here. |
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