Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 476 the travel cast is an audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself I'm your host Norm Schurman strange bring you the winners of our Weird West story competition that we got so many great

stories in it for and we're putting together our commissioned mythos stories

for Lovecraft month coming up but I wanted to get this little gem out to you anyways

because A at its heart I like to think of it as a man versus beast story and you know how I feel about conflict resolution and beast.

Here it out.

Be respectful.

And listen to understand. And B, because as fate would have it, I just had a baby pigeon for a couple days here at

La Casa Sherman that I've been nursing back to health after rescuing from a big old crow that was just laying into them.

Reminding me of a bear attack or something but for birds. I mean if I was a bird I'd definitely be like oh yeah

crows are bears for sure the bear for birds anyhow so I had to break it up because I just

watched the revenant and no bird deserves to die that way let me tell you and you

know what with a little time patience and compassion that pigeon's been

released back into the wild now and is well on its way

to dying a different way. Hopefully all we can never know for certain is that

something we'll get it sooner or later.

So in honor of that brave little pigeon and the amazing story gets to tell now to any other birds who will listen with the intent to understand,

a story for you friends about facing your inner demons and overcoming your greatest fears,

so you too can come out on top, and something else can get you in the end. We bring you the

Pitchin by Michelle Nutsin. Michelle is the New York Times best-selling author of

50 books for young readers including the award-winning library lion.

Her middle grade fantasy and young adult horror comedy romance novels have won honors including

Voya top shelf fiction for middle school readers, Yelsa Best Fiction for Young Adults,

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