Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast, episode 389.

The Drapylcast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by

strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host Norm Sherman.

Great story for you all this week called Night of the Living Potus by Adam Troy Castro.

Adam's an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer living in Florida.

He has more than 80 stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards

including the Hugo,

Nebula, Anne Stoker. These stories include four Spider-Man novels,

including the Sinister Six trilogy. In 2009, Kastra won the Philip K Dick

award for his novel Emissaries from the Dead.

Castor's fiction has been nominated for eight nebulas and two Hugo's.

So without further ado, we bring you Knight of the Living P potas by Adam Troy Castro. All presidents have the same lesson to learn and they all learn it early on the first full morning of

their respective administrations. At that point they have already taken their

oaths, already declared their principles to the nation, already enjoyed the first round of celebrations,

already settled into what they imagine will be an administration marked by great words and historic deeds. They are all ready for the lesson that will haunt

them throughout the remainder of their days in power, giving them the somber gravity

that so many people mistakenly attribute to the unimaginable pressures of the job.

Nobody knows that this change in them has almost nothing to do with anything they face as chief executive and everything to do with the ordeal they all survive

after their first night sleeping under the White House roof. It will be the same

for the next new president.

Male or female, young or old, Republican or Democrat,

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