Tales to Terrify 629 Christian Riley & Matt Thompson

Tales to Terrify

Drew Sebesteny

Short Fiction, Dark Tales, Arts, Books, Creepy Stories, Creepy, Horror Stories, Fiction, Scary Stories, Creepy Pasta, Horror Fiction, Drama, Terror, Short Stories, Horror, Suspense, Flash Fiction

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 629. We have two tales for you this week. First, a father hangs between hope and insanity as the bodies of the missing surface around the world. Then, a shipwrecked sailor finds refuge on a mysterious ship, but the vessel may not be as abandoned as he first believed.

COMING UP

Good Evening: Flash Fiction Contest: 00:01:06

[Trigger] Christian Riley’s From the Labor of God’s Worms as read by James Barnett: 00:03:34

Matt Thompson’s The Lady of the Harvest as read by James Cheatham: 00:24:30

TRIGGER WARNINGS

From the Labor of God’s Worm contains scenes of Child Death.

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Flash Contest: Secret Societies

Christian Riley

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SPECIAL THANKS TO

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Orion D. Hegre

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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. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses,
0:44.3	keeping you from sleep. It's time to face your darkest fears.
0:58.2	This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.
1:23.5	We've reached the halfway mark of our annual flash-fiction contest,
1:28.2	"'that point where our voracious judges begin to get increasingly peckish.
1:34.0	"'They've had their appetites wedded, but are still far from sated.
1:38.8	"'If they don't get more to devour, I'm afraid they'll turn full feral.
1:47.6	"'And that—well, that isn't good for anyone.
1:56.2	So, for my own sake, and of course the innocent general population, keep those entries flowing.
2:03.8	Tales toterrified.com slash flash contest is where you can find all the details you need.
2:08.1	"'You have until midnight on March 1st to submit your entry.
2:16.0	"'We have two tales for you this evening that straddle the thin line between hope and insanity.
2:20.7	"'Our first story for the evening comes from Christian Riley.
2:27.9	Chris Riley lives near Sacramento, California, vowing one day to move back to the Pacific Northwest.
2:29.5	In the meantime, he teaches special education, writes stories, and hides from the blasting heat for
2:36.0	six months of the year. He has had over 100 short stories and essays published in various
2:42.5	magazines and anthologies and across multiple genres. He is the author of the literary suspense novels,
2:49.9	The Sinking of the Angie Piper, and The Broken Pines.
2:54.3	For more information, go to chrisreillyauthor.com.
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