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.

Place yourself for the no-sleep podcast.

It's Episode 19 of Season Two. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, David Cummings.

We have five tales for you in this episode featuring stories about lost young people, bizarre

email exchanges and ghastly graveyard jobs. One of the stories in this episode is a winner

of the monthly writing contests from the no-sleep forum. Also, we have a new narrator joining

us this episode, Jacob Gallegos. He'll be lending his voice to our second story. As always,

I appreciate the way you fans continue to interact with us via social networking and our website.

One of the best ways to support the show is to let other people know about the podcast.

Now I know the kind of stories we present aren't for everyone, but if you have friends,

family members, or people in your social circles who enjoy horror entertainment, please

make sure to mention the podcast to them so they too can discover the fun of listening

to our scary tales during dark nights, the more the merrier and scarier. Now on with the stories.

Our first tale comes to us from author Anton Scheller. We'll be featuring two of Anton's

tales in this episode. In this story, we meet a young man who engages in a war of pranks with

his friends. One prank involving a snowboarding trip to a mountain cabin leads to a very disturbing

series of events. I'll read the tale for you as this young man recalls the events from his winter memories.

When I was young, my friends and I liked to prank each other. Of course, it didn't take long

for that to become a competition, who would be able to pull off the most elaborate prank.

It lasted all summer, and there are many pranks I could tell you about, and quite a few that went

wrong. But by far, my biggest success, if you could call it that, was the snow prank.

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