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The Magnus Archives

Rusty Fears 4 - The Final Culling

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Alexander J. Newall, Unfiction, Rq Network, Horror, Found Footage, Jonny Sims, Science Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts, Fiction Podcast, Fiction, Rusty Quill, Drama, Audio Fiction, Anthology Podcast, Horror Fiction, Horror Podcast, Audiodrama, Jonathan Sims

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Our third piece for the fourth Rusty Fears writing competition is "The Final Culling" written by Miranda B, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner and performed by Sue Sims.


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


Content warnings:

  • Eco-horror & extinction
  • Mass death (animal)
  • Thalassophobia
  • Sharks
  • Discussions of: pollution & global warming, natural disasters
  • Mentions of: death & injury, blood
  • 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

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0:47.3

Thanks for your support.

1:17.6

How big accusations flying around here?

1:19.3

This is truly delightful.

1:20.8

Glass onion, a knives out mystery, only on Netflix 23rd of December.

1:31.5

RustyQuill presents The Final Culling by Miranda B. Read by Sue Sins.

1:48.3

No one remembers when all was one ocean and the dry between did not exist. A perfect home,

1:56.4

no danger of choking on emptiness beyond the surface that separates the above and below,

2:03.1

the safety of infinite water. No one remembers that time, but we know it must have been.

2:12.0

Why else would the above reach for us with desperate, meager drops of water flung from its white caps?

2:20.3

What else could shine so brightly and with such beguiling splendor as the lure of a fish that

2:28.3

praise in the dark? How could something so wide and blue be anything but an ocean?

2:36.8

How could anything that keeps our twin waters apart be more worthy of destruction?

2:42.0

No one remembers the formation of the dry between, but the hate for every betrayer that chose to

2:51.5

inhabit it lives on in the inherited rage of us whom they left behind. We, the descendants of those

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