Pseudipod is extruded into this universe from a dimension of purest fear.

It's beautiful in its own alien way, but what's to come will unsettle you. Pseudepod episode 519 April 13th 2018.

This week's story Emperor Emperor All by Evan Markroft. I'm going toair your host and this

week's story comes to us from Evan Marcroft, an aspiring specifik writer from Sacramento, California who uses his expensive

degree in literary criticism and theory to do menial data entry. I have been

there my dude. I have been exactly there. You got this. He has studied Spanish for four years

and can therefore speak Mandarin, Paulie. Evan dreams of writing for video games and owning a house in

Disney World. His work is forthcoming in

Mirror Dance magazine. Your reader this week is the incomparable Chris Straub, a man

whose work has been defined by two primary elements.

The first is its endless invention and innovation, and the second is the way that it has dragged

horror in so many ways kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Chris is astounding. I am a massive fan and if you saw the first series of Channel Zero,

so are you. So one more time, one more true story. You ready? It's tired of living but only a kiss, but living that time hates. Oh, So, Emperor All by Evan Marcroft, read by Chris Droub.

It is like X-ray vision, like in the comic books from when he was ten.

John blinks the rain out of his eyes and suddenly he can see through the mugger

through his shilacking of wet muscle and scaffolding of bone to the chassis beneath

To the gears and flywheels that make him move and point the knife at him.

John reaches through a yielding mist of sinew and makes key refurbishments so that the

knife is aimed at the mugger's own throat. He unscrews the man's skull and with an easy tinkering

makes him the saddest he's ever been. Plugs bright blaring red thoughts into his head.

A moment later he steps over the body and splashes across the parking lot, trembling giddly.

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