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It's beautiful in its own alien way.

But what's to come will...

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Sudapod, episode 716, August 7th, 2020. Yes, it is still 2020, unfortunately. Sorry about that.

This week's story, Big Brother by Evan Markcroft. Hello everyone, welcome to Sudapod, the Weekly Horror Podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from Evan Markcroft.

It's a Sudapod original too. Eben is an aspiring

specffic writer based out of Philadelphia who uses his expensive degree in literary

criticism and theory to do menial data entry.

Fake laugh, real pain, solidarity.

Evan dreams of writing for video games,

but will settle for literature instead.

His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Metaphorosis, and previously here at Sudapod.

Your narrator for this story is Rish Outfield.

So, get ready, because your big brothers have a story for you and they promise you it's true. Big Brother by Evan Marcroft, narrated by Risch-Outfield.

I was seven when I first met my big brother.

It was five minutes after school let out and Jason Bigmore

and his fourth grade friends had caught me before I could make it out of school grounds.

This was a game we played most every day. Sometimes I won, but this time around. Two of them held me down by the arms, while Jason smashed my face into the black dirt beneath the dead old oak tree out by the baseball diamond.

They called me the usual names and told me to stick your tongue out, pussy willow.

They wanted me to lick the ant hill. They called it

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