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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

It's time to face your darkest fears.

This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

We start this week with a few more introductions.

This time we meet the second half of our slush reading team.

But first, if you don't know about the slush reading process and how it works here at Tales to Terrify,

here's a little peek behind the curtain.

Whenever we're open for submissions, Tales to Terrify receives hundreds of stories from authors from around the globe,

new authors, established authors, and everything in between.

And those stories find their way into the vast underground vaults of our slush pile.

Our readers help us sort through the many submissions and select tales not only based on their craft and story, but on fit for production on the podcast.

As a show dedicated to producing the most terrifying tales, our slush readers, under the discerning eye of Meredith and Seth,

are the gatekeepers of the fiction that finds its way into your ears each week.

And one of those delightfully twisted individuals is Kathleen Palm.

Kathleen wanted to be a ballerina, but dancing was hard.

Then a marine biologist, but science was hard.

So she became a writer, which was hard, but she didn't care.

In her 100-year-old farmhouse in rural Indiana,

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