Tales to Terrify 695 Folklore & Fairytale Flash Contest
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 694. This week, we share the winners of our Folklore & Fairytale Flash Fiction contest, about a changeling, the call of the forest, a hunt for the Pied Piper, and an ancient god resurrected.
COMING UP
Good Evening: Locus Magazine Fundraising: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Runner-Up: Mylo Brehm’s The Cuckoo as read by Georgia Cook: 00:04:42
Runner-Up: Asher Cookson’s The Forest as read by Stephen Gagin: 00:12:53
Runner-Up: Heath Ackley’s Flute as read by Janey Napier: 00:18:16
[Trigger] Winner: Maggie Dominiak’s Xiuhtecuhtli's Resurrection as read by Joel Simler: 00:28:57
PERTINENT LINKS
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Original Score by Nebulus Entertainment
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Amanda Carrillo
Lestle Baxter
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. |
| 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. |
| 0:50.3 | It's time to face your darkest fears. |
| 1:22.2 | This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome. |
| 1:30.4 | I have one piece of noteworthy news to share with you before we dig into our very special episode this evening. |
| 1:38.2 | If you're as big a fan of indie speculative fiction as we are, Locus magazine is no doubt already on your radar. |
| 1:46.1 | If you're not familiar, though, Locus is a website, magazine, archive, and resource for science fiction, |
| 1:53.5 | fantasy, and horror. They're also the force behind the annual Locus Awards, a top-tier award that recognizes excellent new and diverse voices in speculative fiction. For more than 50 years now, they've been telling the storyteller's stories |
| 2:03.4 | through author interviews, book reviews, curated reading lists, international industry news, |
| 2:10.0 | and more. |
| 2:11.6 | Locus is a fantastic resource for anyone who loves speculative fiction. And they need our help. |
| 2:18.8 | Locus is holding their regular fundraising drive |
| 2:21.4 | to keep their doors open, lights on, and future bright. |
| 2:25.9 | Their campaign this year includes a number of fantastic awards for donors, too. |
| 2:30.9 | You can learn more about Locus and their fundraising drive by visiting Indiegogo and searching Locus magazine or by clicking the link in the show notes. |
| 2:42.4 | Tonight, we have the long-awaited winners of our annual Flash Fiction contest. |
| 2:48.8 | As you know, this year our theme was folklore and fairy tale, a topic |
| 2:54.1 | oh so ripe for the horrific plucking. Out of the outstanding entries we received, we whittled it |
| 3:01.6 | down to three runners-up and one winner, with the help of the fabulous ladies at Spirits Podcast, Amanda and Julia. |
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