Hi, friends, it's Fred Greenhalj here.

A new episode of ominous thrill is ready for your ears.

Extraction.

A monstrous zit invades Val's face is holiday dinner with her judgmental mother looms.

A black market face mask promises a miracle, but will force Val to decide how far she'll go for motherly validation.

Here's a preview.

She's terrified.

I understand. But I'm not. Yes, I'm screaming, but not because the pain is exquisite in its malice, or because steaming viscera paints

the bathroom with the frenetic energy of a Jackson Pollock. No, I'm screaming in ecstasy.

I'm reveling in the sweet release of years of accumulated filth exiting my body.

This blood that pours forth is a baptism, an essential.

I pull and pull and pull until the bathroom floor is littered with skin replete with writhing yellow tendrils.

Ominous thrill, extraction, out now, everywhere you listen.

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Welcome to Death is Black, volume four of the color collection series of short stories by number one New York Times bestselling novelist Scott Sigler.

Death is Black is also available as an e-book and as an unabridged ad-free audiobook.

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