Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast, which I'll be saying again in a few seconds.

This is a horror show. Adult and disturbing content is present throughout.

Buckle up.

This is Sudapod, made by humans intended for humans, because only a chump is frightened of Rocco's basilisk.

Sudapod, episode 1017, February 20th, 2026.

This week's story, in the hands of a different god, by Noah Ashley Blooms,

narrated by Danny Daly, hosted by Alastair Stewart, audio by Graham Dunlop.

Before we go any further enormous content warnings for this one, folks, and by Alster Stewart. Audio by Graham Dunlop.

Before we go any further enormous content warnings for this one folks and my host spot,

discussions of terminal illness, bereavement and surgical treatments in particular.

If that is not stuff that you need in your brain right now, none of us will take it personally.

Skip the episode, we'll see you next time. If that is stuff that you do feel like you can deal with, this one is a really, really special story. So

buckle up, and here we go. Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm Alistair, your host,

and this week's story comes to us from Noah Ashley Blooms.

Noah, they then, is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, where I can't follow,

and every bone a prayer. Their work has been nominated for the Crook's Corner Book Prize,

Weatherford Award, and Judy Gaines Young Book Award, and they have been named a South Art

State Literary Fellow for Kentucky.

Their fiction and nonfiction have both appeared in the year's best dark fantasy and horror,

fantasy and science fiction, Strange Horizons, the Oxford American, Reactor, and elsewhere.

They received their MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi,

and they are a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop.

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