Cormorant Isle | Decade of Dread #16

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Enjoy 31 episodes in 31 days as Wrong Station celebrates a “Decade of Dread”. // VENTURE THROUGH TAINTED WATERS IN THE UNSEASONABLE HEAT. // WANDER UNDERNEATH DEAD TREES. // ALL SHALL CHANGE IN... "CORMORANT ISLE" a weird tale from Wrong Station. Written by Alexander Saxton and performed by Anthony Botelho. Celebrate 10 seasons of Wrong Station by subscribing to our Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/thewrongstation⁠. Explore brand new benefits, hundreds of hours of bonus content, and help ensure Wrong Station stays on the air for another 10 years. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at ⁠www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.3	This October, the wrong station celebrates a decade of dread.
1:08.7	You can read the show notes to discover terrible new ways to celebrate with us.
1:12.8	Today's episode, Cormor and Ile,
1:15.0	is written by Alexander Saxton and performed by Anthony Betelow.
2:08.2	Thank you. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm You charter a small flat-bottomed boat out to the island where the cormons live.
2:16.3	The weather is hot. It was never this humid when you were young. There's a thin red haze of smoke, like twilight, hanging in between you and the sun.
2:20.7	You can feel it beginning to scratch in the back of your throat.
2:24.4	Your eyes feel red and ten percent too large for their sockets.
2:29.1	The pilot behind you is wearing a mask and dark glasses, long loose sleeves that cover part of their hands.
2:36.4	More and more people dressed like this, despite the heat.
2:41.2	The birds appear before you come in sight of the island.
2:45.0	Your boat enters the wide dark channel between dark willows, and then the birds are among
2:50.6	you, wing and glow across the waves,
2:54.2	blacker than the black water, silent in their streaks of flight. There's a great sense of
3:01.2	homecoming around you. When they fold their wings and slither underneath the water, you recognize their silhouettes
3:08.4	from childhood books of paleontology, where brightly illustrated hesperorniforms, dawn birds,
3:16.4	slithered down the volcano-warmed shelves of Cretaceous seas.
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