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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.

A quick reminder before we dive in that our special flash fiction submissions period for Women in Horror Month is in full swing.

If you're female or female identifying and have never had your work published, now's the perfect chance to fix that.

Visit talesetorify.com slash submissions and cast your darkest terrors into the pit.

We promise to take very good care of them.

Our deepest, darkest thanks goes out this week to the latest listener to lend their shadow to our creeping darkness, Lisa Burns.

Thanks for the support, Lisa.

It's fans like you that keep the Iker oozing through our shriveled veins,

and we appreciate it so very much.

Tonight, we have two tales to share with you,

about an unsettling exchange between man and nature and a widower who struggles not to lose his head.

Our first story for the evening comes from T.R. Steele.

T.R. Steele is an author of fantasy and gothic fiction living and writing in Toronto.

He shares his home with a cat, a blue-tongued skink, several houseplants, and an expansive library of plant and animal reference books. His work has been published in A Coup of Owls Press,

Harth Stories magazine, Tales to Terrify, and Heartline's Speck.

Children of the Night,

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