Tales to Terrify 596 Victor Forna & Aeryn Rudel
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 596. We have two tales for you this week. First, a woman has an unhealthy obsession with her plants. Then, a man discovers that there are worse version of hell than fire and brimstone.
COMING UP
Good Evening: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Victor Forna’s Shush! as read by Alexandra Elroy: 00:02:59
Aeryn Rudel’s Hell to Pay – Installment Plans Available as read by Dennis Robinson: 00:09:15
TRIGGER WARNINGS
Shush! contains scenes of child death.
PERTINENT LINKS
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Victor Forna on Twitter (@vforna12)
Alexandra Elroy | One Cup of Perfect Tea
Aeryn Rudel on Twitter (@Aeryn_Rudel)
Dennis Robinson | Hive Head Studios
Dennis Robinson | Botched Podcast
Dennis Robinson | Botched Podcast on Twitch
Original Score by Nebulus Entertainment
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Amanda Carrillo
Amanda Gottfried
Lestle Baxter
Orion D. Hegre
Paul Belcher
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
| 0:01.7 | Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. |
| 0:05.4 | It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:09.1 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep. |
| 0:48.3 | It's time to face your darkest fears. |
| 1:22.2 | This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm away traveling this week, |
| 1:29.6 | exploring the rolling, twisty backroads of the rocky mountains of southern British Columbia by motorcycle. |
| 1:33.3 | So, while I could ramble on about submissions, yes, we're still open, and supporting us on Patreon, |
| 1:40.2 | which you definitely should do. |
| 1:42.7 | This week, we're going to skip all of that and dive straight into our stories. |
| 1:49.4 | Our first story for the evening comes to us from Victor Forna. |
| 1:55.4 | Victor Forna is a Sierra Leonean writer based in his country's capital, Freetown. He currently works as an |
| 2:03.2 | environmentalist. His short fiction and poetry have been published for our forthcoming in homes such |
| 2:10.6 | as Fantasy Magazine, Lowellway, Short Story de Africa Anthology Disruption and elsewhere. |
| 2:19.9 | He is an alumnus of the 2022 A.K.O. Kane Prize Writing Workshop. |
| 2:26.1 | You can find him on Twitter at VFORNA12. |
| 2:30.2 | And if you've got time, VFORNA Shapes at WordPress.com is where his homeless creations shudder beneath shadowy bridges. |
| 2:41.0 | Children of the Night, join me for Victor Forna's Shush, a tales to Terrify Original. And they dare hurt them, touch them when I turn away? What type of mother will it make me if I let this slide? |
| 3:20.4 | I don't even want to think about what they did to, to... A friend's voice from years ago crawled and tucked itself between the thoughts in S's mind. |
| 3:30.0 | S, don't lose your family over... |
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