The Welcome to another edition of Nightmarefews and Peepers.

I'm Dan Cummins, and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional horror variety.

An actual short story this time.

One and done. Before my next

tale will begin, I think we'll take a bit longer to tell. This is the story I shared during the

haunted Halloween, Scared to Death Live show back in October on Moment.co. I really liked how it came

out. It starts a bit slow to set everything up, but then I feel like it really moves once it gets

going. If the Liminal Lodge was a drama horror hybrid miniseries, this one's more like a horror action

mashup movie. I loved Logan scoring on the fly for that show and just wanted to tell it again

and allow him to get more immersive with it and have more people hear it. So here we are.

I hope you like it. And thanks so much to all the people

who took time to send in an email or leave a comment on Patreon or Spotify about the conclusion

to the Liminal Lodge. I really appreciate it. So glad so many of you enjoyed it and took a moment

to share that with me. As always, we highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the ultimate

audio experience.

Hope you enjoy this new nightmare.

Time now for the tale of the long, dark morning.

Up above the Arctic Circle, in the middle of another long winter, on a morning that had merged with a night that had lasted weeks instead of hours,

sits a small city that often appears at quick glance, more like a colony on some distant, dark, and inhospitable planet,

than it does a thriving, modern living place, full of young life, old traditions, and technological enterprise.

Over 40,000 Norwegians were starting their day in a land of not just the snow and the ice

that most would expect, but also a pleasantly surprising amount of art and culture,

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