Hello and welcome to the Travel Cast Christmas Special, episode 420. The Travel Cast Christmas Special, Episode 420.

The Travel Cast 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. Happy

20 folks. Hope you rang in the holidays with style, survived the New Year's parties, the office Christmas parties,

the ugly sweater parties.

Nobody appreciates those more than me, I tell you.

Well, homeless people, maybe.

As we announced on social media and elsewhere,

we had to take a little break in December

due to some health issues I had

and the general busyness of that time of the year. Thus our story this week, following

the long tradition of featuring an original travel cast commissioned holiday tale by

beloved travel cast author Tim Pratt, well it might just feel a little bit

December for your typical January, but whatever you're gonna love it nonetheless I

promise and that's a statement not a fact but first a hundred word story

travel travels are stories exactly one words. Try writing one yourself and submit it in our forums at

forums dot travelcast.org. We might pick yours and run it on the show. This week's

drabble is called Hunger and it comes to us by way of Weirdbeard. Here goes.

They're going.

They press. They pressed against the glass doors, their wild eyes searching for their prey.

The madness had spread through the population, infecting more people than the experts had anticipated.

I took refuge behind the counter, hoping its meager defense would be enough.

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