TWL 1011: "A Fish Doesn't Know", by Myk Pilgrim
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Nicola Hope is exhausted, tired, buggered even.
She spends most of her time sweating like a pig in the Horny Haggis kitchen, but now that she's done for the day, all she wants is to sit at the bar and guzzle down all the beer in the world - and maybe just maybe, if she's lucky enough, she might even score a little action.
It's always nice not to spend the night alone. But that all disintegrates like a politician’s promise when her mother texts. Mostly everything Nicola loves crumbles when Mammie touches them, and Mammie likes nothing more than touching the things that makes her daughter happy.
Set in Dreich, the same damp Scottish town as "The Nun's Cat", Myk Pilgrim's contribution to The Wicked Library's 13 Wicked Tales Anthology – “A Fish Doesn't Know” is about the terrible joy at seeing yourself as you are.
Told by: Erika Sanderson
Custom Score: Nico Vettese
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:12.2 | You're listening to the Wicked Library. Hello, and welcome to11 of the Wicked Library. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Daniel Foytek, and I thank you for listening. |
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| 0:50.8 | Your ratings do help others find the show and of course we love hearing from you the |
| 0:55.6 | librarian told me that he knows some of you haven't yet picked up our first written anthology |
| 1:00.3 | thirteen wicked tales which is available on amazon in print and kindle he also wanted me to |
| 1:06.6 | remind you that all of his books are hungry for your fear. For less than a cup of coffee per |
| 1:12.6 | story, you can feed a book your fear and keep it cold and wicked. Grab your copy at thewicked |
| 1:19.0 | library.com forward slash read. It's packed with great tales by some of your favorite authors |
| 1:24.4 | from the show, including today's author, Mike Pilgrim. |
| 1:28.4 | The book also features beautiful cover art and illustrations by Jeanette Andromeda. |
| 1:33.3 | It's a fantastic collection, and we know you'll want to copy for your own Wicked Library. |
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