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The Wicked Library

Gifts for The Wicked: “Desperate Measures", by Mel

The Wicked Library

9th Story Studios LLC

Drama, Fiction, Arts, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to day twenty of Gifts for The Wicked, an Audio Advent Calendar of Dark Christmas Drabbles.

Today we present a tale by Mel told by Daniel Foytik with music by Nico Vettese. Art by Jesse Hawke.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com Audio program ©2022 – 9th Story Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved.

No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

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0:00.0

9th Story Studios giving story a voice Desperate Times by Mel.

0:29.8

I didn't want to believe Grandpa was so far gone, as I watched him brine up my spouse's body for Christmas dinner, a trick he had learned from the war, he always said with an uncanny look in his eyes.

0:44.1

Grandpa had not come back the same.

0:47.3

And as of late, he thought he was back in the war again.

0:51.7

He cried about how you don't understand the decisions I had to make.

0:57.2

I choke on my spit, trying to speak, and half wonder if I hadn't married a Korean.

1:03.5

Would he have left them alone?

1:05.6

Grandpaw looked up from his work with a hungry look and offered,

1:09.3

You want to sample the flesh?

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