When you looked away the chalkboard was blank. When you look back, someone or something has written on it.

Pseudopod is a horror podcast. This will be your last warning.

Sudapod, episode 655, July 5th, 2019. This week's story, Black Matter by Vivian Shore.

Hello everyone, welcome to Pseudapod The Weekly Horror Podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from Vivian Shore. Vivian

wears way too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink.

She was born in Kenya and spent her early childhood in the UK before relocating to America at the age of seven.

Her debut trilogy is published by Orbit.

Strange practice, followed by dreadful company and grave importance which is forthcoming later this year.

Her short fiction has appeared in uncanny magazine and in her spare time she draws,

sows, makes jewelry, collects vintage cookbooks and fountain pens and writes fan fiction,

pen name Cold Hope. She lives in Baltimore with her wife, the author

Arcady Martine. Your reader for this story is Bob Eccles. Bob is a parking enforcement officer at the University of Michigan. He

enjoys writing short stories, mainly horror and sci-fi, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association,

The Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers and the Fiction Eism.

There's a little bit of interesting context for this story which will save till the

outro, but one thing you need to know before we go in is this is a Sudapod original. So, get ready because while NTSB records

may say different, trust us. This story is true.

Black Matter by Vivian Shaw, narrated by Bob Eccles.

When all those legs and arms and heads shall join together at the latter day and cry

all, we died at such a place.

Some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives, left poor behind them.

Some upon the debts they owe.

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