As the sunlight fades to darkness and the frightful tails creep into your mind, it's

time to give in to your fear because tonight there will be no sleep.

Brace yourself for the no-sleep podcast.

It's episode 15 of season 2. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, David Cummings.

We have five tails for you this time, featuring someone inking, another sinking, and others

shrinking without blinking in the face of fear. We have two new narrators joining us this

episode, Megan O'Hara Murray and Brittany Coulter lend their voices to two tails from a

female perspective. Also, our final story in this episode is the winner of the no-sleep

Brighting Contest for October. I also want to send a big thanks to the many people who have

been leaving encouraging comments on the website and on Facebook recently. I really do appreciate

the support. Now, let's get things started with our first tale. In the midst of grieving a lost

brother, a sister decides to honor him by getting a tattoo that he used to have. Author Molly McDonald

describes how the tattoo has a much deeper connection to her brother than she could have expected.

Megan O'Hara Murray reads for us the tale entitled Tattoo You.

When I was 19 years old, I decided to get a tattoo. The year before, my older brother Tripp

died in a car accident, and I was still in mass. Tripp and I were what they call Irish twins,

born less than a year apart, and we'd always been super close. On the advice of my therapist,

I deferred my college admission for a year, but that left me with a way too much time to think.

I picked up a part-time job and decided I'd get a few electives out of the way at the local

university. One of these was life-drawing, and it was there that I saw Robbins work for the first

time. I wasn't the only student in the class who gasped out loud on our model for the night dropped

a robe and revealed her stunning backpiece. The art was nearly photorealistic in detail. The colors

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