9th Story Studios, giving story a voice.

If this is your first visit to the Wicked Library, we do want you to be aware that this is a horror fiction podcast.

That means it contains adult themes, adult situations, and is designed to make you feel afraid, or at the very least, uncomfortable.

If you're not up for that, not the show for you.

Hello, and welcome to the Wicked Library's presentation of the darkness in between season one episode number seven.

This is our interseasonal entertainment while we're hard at work on putting together season 11 of the show and also working on the new season of the private collector.

We do, of course, still have another episode left in season two to come at you guys.

If you're a Patreon supporter, you will get that first.

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Now, without further ado, today's episode is written by Caleb Stevens, entitled, If Only a Heart,

and told by Nelson Piles.

The Frost hit him first, a cold ether that woke him stiff, head to toe.

Paul cracked his eyes open to the weak pre-dawn light of the tent,

and rolled toward his daughter, toward the bloom of cinnamon hair, soul-like Catharines,

coffee and milk.

His hand drifted for her shoulder.

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