The artifact is 150,000 years old. It's made of an artificial metal we have been unable to identify.

There is a message scratched on the front.

What does it say?

This is a horror podcast. Consider yourselves warned.

Souder Pod episode 623 November23, November 23, 2018.

This week's story, Greener Pastures by Michael We Hunt.

Hi everyone, welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from Michael We Hunt and was originally

published in Aghast, number one in 2015.

It was reprinted as the title story of Michael's debut short fiction collection from Shock

totem and Apex, which was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and was shortlisted for the I A F A's Crawford Award.

Michael has a couple of comments about the story which we're going to save to the end cap.

In the meantime, your reader for this is the magnificent Bill Roussom of the Tunnels Podcast which once had an oddly familiar

English chap on it who well it ended badly at least for him but that's another story for another time. So without further

ado, put your headlights on and get ready because somewhere out there is the

truth. Michael Wayunt, narrated by Bill Rousom.

You ever can't sleep, the trucker said.

Fersight glanced up out of his thoughts.

The man standing at his table was big and worn out. His eyes

raw and heavy even in the shadow of his cap's bill. He had a young face with an old

beard matted on the left side as though he'd been trying to nap against the window of his cab.

The trucker slid into the booth, but Forsyth didn't answer his question at first.

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