REBROADCAST - The Incomparable Freddy Red
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
89.1 The Incomparable Freddy Red
When seven-year-old Kim Barnes wills her imaginary friend, Freddy Red, into existence, who spills over with games and laughter and titters and blood.
Written by Luke Kondor (https://www.lukekondor.com)
Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies (https://twitter.com/mldAudio)
Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
With music by MusicLFiles (https://cemmusicproject.wixsite.com/musiclibraryfiles)
And Duncan Muggleton (https://temporalrecordings.wordpress.com)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
And sound effects provided by Freesound.org
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington, our own imaginer, dreaming up content friends to play with at the social media playground.
Luke Kondor started writing on his computer in his early teens and never looked back… and now he has very sore eyes. He runs and produces a short story podcast called The Other Stories, which has amassed over 10-million downloads. In 2015, he won the best Low-Budget Film Award at the London Short Film Festival for a film he made in 7 days with no camera and no money. Currently he works from a dining room table in the middle of Sherwood Forest and lives with his fiancée, Cat, their pet cat, Oscar, and their larger, angrier cat, Alaska, who is actually a dog. www.lukekondor.com
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have stories it's taking a well-earned summer break after nearly a decade of weekly weirdness? |
| 0:05.8 | While we regroup and recharge behind the scenes, we're rebroadcasting some of our favorite episodes. |
| 0:11.6 | And yes, in the words Varney, we'll be back. |
| 0:18.8 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:21.6 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:35.2 | Today's episode of The Other Stories is The Incomparable Freddy Red, written by Luke Condor and narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies. |
| 0:49.1 | Music Freddy blinked. |
| 1:02.8 | And just like that, he was alive. |
| 1:06.6 | Just his eyes at first. |
| 1:08.7 | They hung in the air of Kim Barnes' bedroom like two floating hard-boiled |
| 1:12.9 | eggs, blinking with increasing fervour, trying to make sense of what they were, where they |
| 1:18.6 | were, and why they were. With a series of electric pops more of Freddy screamed into existence. |
| 1:26.8 | His capillia is sizzled before being muffled by the |
| 1:29.4 | membranous hides of his lungs. His floating heart thumped ten lonely beats before his neck, |
| 1:35.4 | knees and toes flitted into the room. He tried to speak but he had no lips, no teeth, nor |
| 1:41.8 | throat. |
| 1:42.8 | "'Hang on a second, a voice said. |
| 1:45.6 | You're not finished yet. |
| 1:48.0 | The fingers that Freddy didn't have a moment ago |
| 1:50.4 | danced in the air like loose spider legs |
| 1:52.8 | before fixing themselves to his palms. |
| 1:55.9 | Okay, nearly there, nearly. |
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