Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast episode 486. The Drapylcast is an audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to

strange listeners such as yourself. I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

Y'all like houses? Well I don't know if you'll... Well, trigger warning I guess for

this week's episode then, although they're not really horses per se, they're, oh I don't want to spoil the lore.

We bring you those who forget, those who perish, by K.W. Collard grew up weird in a one-cution-like town in the Appalachian foothills.

They now live in an old textile city with their husband and a clowder of Cats.

Their fictions also appeared on Clark's World and Diabolical plots and on Twitter

at Christian writing. This story, Those Who Forget and Those Who Parrish, was first

published and seized the press in 2022. So without further ado, we bring you those who forget and those who perish by KW

Colard.

The morning after the ritual, the horse girls wake to the sting of the straw that

prods the fresh seams of their new bodies.

They wince and twist to get away from the crude stalk stabbing at their tender guts,

but this only brings new and more unpleasant sensations.

The stitches that join their flesh together with the flesh of another, a confidant, a friend, tug against their tender skin and hold it in place.

Hold them in place.

However much the horse girls might struggle, Ruffage will find its way inside them soon enough.

Appetite changes topped the list of side effects they could expect.

None of them had to ask what that meant.

They signed anyway, piercing the pads of their ungloved thumbs with long silver needles to press

bloody prints on to parchment and seal their own fates.

This ritual is one of fate, not choice.

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