Sandra McDonald | When You Work for the Old Ones

NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

John Joseph Adams

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.2 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The first rule is that the company has no name. It has no website or social media presence. It does not pay taxes or Social Security. In a crowded bar near the Providence train station, you drink a beer with the guy who recruited you and neither of you refer to your employer. The Old Ones listen to everything, and their torture racks are hungry for victims. Remember Rodriguez? Raise your glass but don’t say his name. The second rule is that the company will not pay in checks or direct deposit. A stranger will slip a moldy envelope of cash into your pocket when you’re walking in a crowd. | Copyright 2016 by Sandra McDonald. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Welcome to the Nightmare magazine story podcast.
1:15.6	I'm your host, Jack Kincaid.
1:17.6	Nightmare magazine is edited by John Joseph Adams and Wendy Wagner.
1:21.6	The stories of this podcast are produced by Skyboat Media,
1:24.6	helmed by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabriel DeCure, in association with Jim Freund.
1:29.3	Our next offering for the November issue is, When You Work for the Old Ones, by Sandra MacDonald.
1:35.3	The stories read for you by Stefan Ritnicki.
1:37.3	When You Work for the Old Ones by Sandra McDonald is copyright 2016.
1:42.3	Sandra McDonald's first collection of fiction, Diana Comet and other improbable stories,
1:48.0	was a booklist editor's choice, an American Library Association Over the Rainbow
1:52.0	Book and winner of a Lambda Literary Award.
1:55.0	She writes adult and young adult books with gay, transgender, and asexual characters,
1:59.0	including the collection Drag Queen Astronaut,
2:01.7	the thriller, City of Soldiers, as Sam Burke, and the award-winning Fisher-key adventures as Sam
2:07.5	Cameron. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's science fiction, the magazine of fantasy
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