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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.

As promised, we have a special episode for you this evening.

The long-awaited results of our Secret Society's Flash Fiction Contest.

But before we get to the winners, I want to give a shout out to all of the winners and finalists of last weekend's Bram Stoker Awards.

With so many amazing works and talented authors on the ballot, I don't envy the judges,

but they made some great selections.

Of the winners, a few highlights include Dai Gyeong's win in the long fiction category

for Ling Wen, and in the category of short fiction, Quandum, by Cindy O'Quinn.

If you really want to bolster your reading list, I encourage you to check out the full list of

winners which I've linked to in the show notes. There are some truly phenomenal terrors in there

that are sure to keep you chilled well into

the sweltering months of summer. Now, what you've been waiting for, we've got some winners of

our own to share with you. Tonight we've got three short tales about the organized darkness

that lurks beneath the surface of regular society.

We begin this evening with our first runner-up, a tiny terror that comes to us from Erica Rupert.

Erica Rupert lives in northern New Jersey, with her husband and too many cats.

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