Kaly and Lula sat on the beach looking out at the dark water when the bottle floated toward them.

It shone in the moonlight.

Kaly spotted it first.

Mine! she yelled, splashing into the shallows. Let me see, Lula Wined.

No, Cayley said, I found it.

She poked at the cork and it crumbled.

Inside was a rolled up piece of paper yellow and cracked with age.

What does it say?

Boula asked.

Kayle squinted.

It says that this is a horror podcast and if there's anything you don't think you want to hear or if you start hearing something that bothers you

You should turn it off and come back next week

She sighed and flung the paper and the bottle back into the sea.

Huh, nothing good. I guess we should go home.

Kaylee turned to Lula, but her little sister was no longer there.

Around her, the water was black and cold, and she could no longer see the shore. Sure.

Suopod, episode 712, July 10th, 2020. This week's story, Flash on the Border Lands 52. You know what you are.

Hello everyone, welcome to Pseudopod The Weekly Horror Podcast. I'm Alistair. Your host in this week's story comes to us from all sorts of people.

Here's the thing. Everyone gets their dare to be great moment whether you want it or not.

That moment where you find it who you are, what you are, where your self-image is held out into the blistering light of reality and when it comes back, well, that rather depends, doesn't it?

Hemingway, once said.

We are all of us broken by life and afterwards we are stronger in the broken places.

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