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Today we are reading a viewer recommended story.

Someone on our Patreon asked actually recommended this.

A person that goes by the name of Caldwell Fitzgerald recommended the story. The ocean is much deeper than we thought. Have we done an actual ocean? Have we done like an ocean? We did the SCP. SCP 3,000. Oh, that's what it was. I was wondering which one. Yeah, it's been a while. Let's do another SCP one. one's been a while since we've done an SCP thing too yeah SCP 3,000 was just

was an ocean one but I think this is our actual first like story story story story

narrative story where we get some fun deep ocean horror, which is what I'm stoked on.

I love, as you know, I love HP Lovecraft, weird fish people monster thing.

Wouldn't be upset if this skewed into a Lovecraft in territory.

There you go.

So the timer on that, one minute, that's 72 seconds.

Record.

So, 72 seconds in the episode. There we go. Excellent. So, yes, this story is written by Richard

Saxon. Richard Saxon seems pretty prolific. I'm not seeing any links to like a book for sale

or anything, but he writes online a ton. His last story on No Sleep was in

November. He has a what-pad story called the Crimson Nexus that seems pretty intensive.

This guy writes a bunch, and the story comes highly recommended. So if you enjoy, we'll have his

links in the description. Thank you very much, Richard, for making this story and writing cool stuff.

As I think I've talked about it on the show before, but as a kid, I was like petrified

to the ocean. Like I would have nightmares about it. I used to have this weird nightmare where

I'd be on like on top of the cliff overlooking the ocean and I would just be flung out into it,

like hundreds of miles into the middle of nowhere,

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