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The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

Christmas 2023 - But You Can’t F With Christmas

The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

Luke Kondor

Drama, Horror Fiction, Science Fiction, Scary Stories, Horror Audio Drama, Nosleep, Fiction

4.4851 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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But You Can’t F With Christmas


'In a Britain striving for economic efficiency, the government implements the SNOW program, mandating work on Christmas unless offset by hefty spending or church attendance. Amidst mounting public unrest, Prime Minister Horrace Eaton awakens on Christmas Eve to the dire consequences of his policy.'


Written and narrated by Andy Conduit-Turner (https://twitter.com/andyctwrites)

Wraparound segments written by Andy Conduit-Turner (https://twitter.com/andyctwrites)

Wraparound extra narration performed by Luke Kondor (https://www.instagram.com/lukeofkondor) and Andy Conduit-Turner (https://twitter.com/andyctwrites)

Produced by James Barnett AKA Jimmy Horrors (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)

With music by Dark Fantasy Studio (http://darkfantasystudio.com/)

And Beat Mekanik (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/)

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

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

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org and Boom Library

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Joshua Boucher for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington, the mistletoe of social media, his posts serving as a virtual gathering place for friends and followers to share a kiss or two… of digital interaction.


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The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Cross, the new series only on Prime Video.

0:04.0

You're going to be part of a masterpiece.

0:06.0

Evil knows his name.

0:08.0

Detective Alex Cross.

0:11.0

Where he lives.

0:13.0

It was in my house.

0:15.0

His darkest secret.

0:16.0

And when I'm done, the world will know the truth.

0:20.0

Based on characters created by James Patterson.

0:23.4

I'm not a monster. I don't kill for fun.

0:25.8

Cross. New series. Watch now only on Prime Video.

0:30.2

You're curious, inquisitive. You've heard about people's postcode lottery and you want to join.

0:35.4

Just enter your postcode and you'll be automatically

0:37.6

entered into all drawers. And in our December draws, you could win a share of 32.5 million pounds.

0:44.4

Just imagine the dream home renovations and dream your holidays. For the chance to win,

0:49.3

sign up before midnight on the 1st of December because good news could be delivered to your door.

0:54.5

People's Postcode Lottery managed lotteries on behalf of good causes, 18 plus conditions

0:57.8

apply, play responsibly not available in Northern Ireland.

1:03.6

These aren't the stories your mother told you.

1:06.4

No, these are the other stories.

1:23.6

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. these are the other stories that was a strange dream that was a strange dream.

1:29.4

I must have fallen asleep in my podcasting chair, right after recording the end of year message,

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