Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story podcast.

Enter freely and of your own free will.

I am your humble host, Terence Taylor, one very much at home with the children of the night.

Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon goblin, guides us down into beautiful darkness.

In this episode, before our fooling story, we have a poem, stillborn, written by Chantel Powell,

and narrated by Susan Hanfield.

But first, a word from our sponsors.

Stillborn. Chantelle Powell. And now, Susan Henfield.

Stillborn. Shantel Powell.

I grew up in rural and remote areas across Canada and have traveled the world,

witnessing both willful and incidental destruction of ecosystems.

Until I became too disabled to continue,

I marched with land defenders in solidarity,

with Wetzotan over the Canadian governments and coastal gas links,

continued desecration of their sovereign territory.

This poem was written in response to the landback movement and as part of the brainstorming process

for my unpublished Clifai novel, The Ever When,

S.P.

I fear they will never stop being born

that the labor of the world is never ending.

Spasm after spasm, go, go!

Forced birth pangs of great celerity, speeding through the earth's skin and muscle,

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