S1.3 Butterfly Bites
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Butterfly Bites
Aideen finds a lush thriving garden behind an old abandoned house, filled with beautiful butterflies. But, wait, butterflies don’t bite, do they?
Written by Susan E. Rogers(https://www.facebook.com/sarahjanejusticewriting)
Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://instagram.com/efventu)
Produced by Karl Hughes (https://bsky.app/profile/karlhughes.bsky.social)
With music by Brylie Christopher Oxley (https://brylie.bandcamp.com/)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
And sound effects provided by Freesound.org
The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes (https://www.mattseffbarnes.com/)
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Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos.
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Susan E. Rogers lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, transplanted from Massachusetts. Her move was the catalyst to focus on her life-long ambition to write. Her other interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, often twisting these into her writing. She’s published two speculative non-fiction books and an occult thriller. A supernatural mystery is under contract for release in 2024. Starting in 2020, her short fiction has been published in print anthologies and several literary and genre magazines. A complete listing of her work is found at www.susanerogers.com
Erika Ventura is an artist, mother, bilingual narrator, and a painting instructor. How does she manage it all? No idea, but her artwork can be seen on Instagram (@efventu) or you can visit her artist page www.facebook.com/BioArtsy
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:03.0 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's episode of the other stories is |
| 0:18.0 | Butterfly Bites, written by Susan E. Rogers and |
| 0:21.2 | narrated by Eric Ventura. |
| 0:32.3 | A tiny green butterfly fluttered around her shoulder, perhaps drawn by the smell of her botanical shampoo. |
| 0:40.3 | The air shifted slightly as it flitted upwards to her chin. |
| 0:45.3 | She swatted by reflex when it flew on a straight path to her eyes, and then it was gone. |
| 0:52.3 | The early evening was cool on her face, her round cheeks coated in a thin film of dew. |
| 1:03.1 | Pearly shafts of light peeked through the woods and caressed her skin with dappled strokes. |
| 1:09.9 | Her footsteps echoed off the mist that festooned the trees like garland, |
| 1:14.6 | and stillness embraced her, despite the deep sense of desolation and longing that lingered along this length of road. |
| 1:24.6 | Aideen loved these evening walks. She walked here every day unless the weather stopped her. |
| 1:32.3 | This old country road, only a half mile from her house, had been supplanted 70 years ago by the busy state highway. |
| 1:41.3 | Now it was forgotten by motorists and everybody else in town. She was |
| 1:48.5 | drawn by its silence to relieve the stress of her day and recharge her energy. Working from |
| 1:55.9 | home as a copy editor for the conglomerate-run newspaper in the city was frenetic and exhausting. |
| 2:04.3 | She came to a break in the trees and looked over what once must have been an expanse of lawn, |
| 2:11.3 | now overgrown with four-foot grass. |
| 2:15.4 | A yellow butterfly fluttered above the heavy seed spikes for a few seconds, then flew directly |
| 2:22.6 | toward her face. |
| 2:25.0 | She jerked her head away as it turned abruptly and drifted off over the grassy tangle. |
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