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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 to 2025.

We have a pair of tales to kick off the new year. First, we finally discover the real reason the chicken cross the road. Then, a girl fascinated with the spiders in her old home invites a friend over for a visit after school.

Our first story for the evening comes from Frank Orido. Frank Orido is a writer of

weird and horrific fiction living in the wilds of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in

the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree Press, and the year's best hardcore horror.

When not writing, Frank creates elaborate meals for his wife and ever-hungering children.

Children of the Night, join me for Frank Orido's The Other Side, a tales to Terrify Original.

Music The Other Side, a tales to terrify original. You know, His had not been a big life.

He pecked up a hard, dry piece of corn almost by instinct.

The smell of the blood-soaked earth filled him, and he dropped the food from his beak. A small life, then, hemmed in by rough-hewn wood, and rust-flect-wire mash. But even a small life has its

pleasures. His woman, warm, loving and soft with feathers, of course, the glory of a song. His voice strong and excellent,

calling up to the sun, singing a new day into existence. Now, all gone. A section of gate left askew.

An attack, the beast who'd constantly sniffed and growled at their walls, finally inside,

all stinking fur and yellow-daggered teeth.

The tall one, bringer of food and taker of children, shouting,

Spot! No! Rushing in, pulling the mad beast away.

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