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You Know It's True. Twelve stories of truly dark fiction.

Call 911. That's what he needed to do. Call 911 and just tell them something terrible that happened.

Professionals will come and see I had nothing to do with this, nothing to do, couldn't possibly have, and he despised himself for succumbing to thoughts of self-preservation, but what else could he do? That was a life raft he understood understood and Emily,

Downstairs, that hot house dankness,

the sticky presence in the air,

The three irregularly pyramidal pewse-colored heaps of crumbling powdery flesh the hardened fragments of

what could be bone jutting out like mooray eels from Coral.

From the story, it's always time to go.

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Rock solid short stories that you never see coming and that always pack a punch

when they arrive. Snag a copy, Kindle or paperback off Amazon.com. You know it's true by JR hammentation. Ain't no cookies up in this bee. Hello and welcome to the travel cast, episode 450. 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.

Real treat for you folks this week,

a story by one of my favorite authors

and also one of the best short story writers

in the 20th century, Flannery O'Connor.

Flannery O'Connor's work, usually set in the rural American South, often concerns

the relationship between individuals and God.

She grew up in a prominent Roman Catholic family in Savannah, Georgia until the worsening of her father's lupus forced

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