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Thank you. Welcome to Tales to Tales to Terrify, part of Talk, part of the District of Wonders Network.

Featuring Starship, Sofafer and Far-Fetched Fables,

everyone has a story in the District of Wonders.

Come and find yours.

Good evening, children of the Night.

Last week I'd forgotten to congratulate Tony on the completion of the District of Wonder's successful Kickstarter project.

Aside from that, Children of the Night,

I really don't have any pertinent news or personal thoughts about stories, books, or

movies. So let's just dive on in. We have two stories for you this evening. First up,

we'll come from Gwendolyn Keist, a horror and fantasy writer based in Pennsylvania. Her fiction

has appeared in anthologies including strangely funny, and whispers from the past,

fright and fear as well as online, at The Sirens Call, Dance Macabre, and Sanitarium magazine, among others.

You can find her at Gwendolyn Keist.com and on Twitter at Gwendolyn Keist. Listen with me now to Gwendolyn Kest.com and on Twitter at Gwendolyn Kest.

Listen with me now to Gwendolyn Kiste's Black Door.

As a kid, I thought everyone's house had a black front door with scratch marks on it.

Maybe not black, but at least the remnants of four-inch claws edging their melody into the woodwork.

But living on a long, otherwise abandoned road afforded few opportunities to test my theory.

As it turns out, I was wrong anyhow.

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