Rusty Fears 4 - New Roots

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week we present the fourth and final winning entry of our Rusty Fears 4; "New Roots" written by Cecelia Morelli, directed by Maddy Searle and performed by Ben Meredith.

Note: this is a piece of stand-alone fiction and not a part of the Magnus canon.

Content warnings:

Death (inc. suicide & parental death)
Human remains
Pain & blood
Graphic body horror
Mentions of: food & eating, smoking, illness & fatigue
SFX: continuous low-pitched & high-pitched drone

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Alex here co-creator of the Magnus Archives and voice of Martin Blackwood.
0:07.8	I'm here to quickly tell you about our Kickstarter for the Magnus Archives 2, also known as the
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0:47.3	Thanks for your support.
1:17.8	Hi everyone, this is Lowry, producer of the Magnus Archives, and I'd like to welcome you to RustyFear's
1:35.0	4th Writing Competition. We have chosen 4 stories written by our listeners to be recorded,
1:42.0	directed and edited by our production team and will be releasing them over the next few weeks.
1:47.8	As before, please remember these are standalone stories and not to be considered part of the
1:53.3	Magnus Archives canon. Enjoy!
1:59.5	RustyQuill presents New Roots by Cecilia Morelli, read by Ben Meridith.
2:15.4	My hand hesitates twice before I bring myself to knock. I hear his footsteps.
2:20.2	The door jerks a bit before it opens and suddenly there is Oliver.
2:24.4	Theo? His eyebrows are in surprise. He looks the same, taller than me now, but still gentler in the face,
2:33.5	pale in a way he had never been when we were children, but just as soft.
2:38.0	I smile at him and when I hug him he meets me smiling. His arms wrap around me and squeeze.
2:43.4	His cheek presses against my cheek. His fingers gently digging into my shoulder blades.
2:48.4	The hug seems to settle over us like the creaky of a house, old and waking up to itself.
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