Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 492. 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 Sherman. This

week folks we bring you a double-headed special where we feature two great

stories by one great author and a great author is indeed what we're working with here.

A real diamond in the rough in my opinion when it comes to weird fiction.

You haven't heard her on the show yet, but we just bought a slew of her story

so you won't be a stranger for long.

Introducing Christine Nogel.

Christy Nogel is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award

nominated in Bramstoker Award winning novel, Bula,

by Cemetery Gates Media,

and the collection The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future, by Flamtree Press.

She's the co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Bramstoke Award Nominated anthology, Mother, Tales of Love and Terror by Weird Little Worlds, and co-editor with A. Jong of Wilted Pages and Anthev. of

love and terror by Weird Little Worlds and co-editor with A. Jong of Wilted Pages and anthology of Dark Academia.

Follow her at Christine Nogel.com

and on Twitter at ChristieNogel.

We're excited to present to you two stories of hers about transformation.

Fall into water, become someone new, followed by Arcombe Bulldo, narrated by a voice we love

here on the travel cast, the one and only, as far as I know, were at war.

So grab a dark beer, a swell of stew, and to seat the picnic table, because without further ado,

we bring you fall into water, become someone new, and Archambamboldo by Christie Nogel. lines after lines of picnic tables are set on the plane, and the men seated at them drink

dark beer and swill cups of stew made from meat and foul and fish and mollusks, tubers and powdered milk.

It's chalky stuff, but there's plenty to wash it down.

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