Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story podcast.

Enter freely and of your own free will.

I am your humble host, Terence Taylor, one very much at home with the Children of the night. Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon

goblin, guides us down into beautiful darkness. In this episode, before our full-length

story, we have a short shot, the versions of yourself that you're better off without,

written by Amy Ogden and narrated by Susan Handfield.

But first, a word from our sponsors.

And now, Susan Hanfield.

The versions of yourself that you're better off without.

By Amy Ogden.

Story background.

I'm probably not the only person dealing with intrusive thoughts about everything I've ever said or done,

or not said or not done, that I wish I could change. Sometimes I've wished I could shout at the past versions of

myself. But in this story, I wondered what would happen if someone took things several steps further

than shouting.

A-O.

If Brenna hadn't forgotten her wallet,

it might have been months before she caught herself in her apartment.

The other version of her dated back a few months

from just after the breakup, pale and pathetic,

still wearing one of Ivy's fucking hoodies.

When the door banged open again, she froze in front of the open fridge,

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