Are you sitting comfortably?

Are your earphone securely fastened to your head?

Well then, sit down, buckle up, and prepare yourself.

Once a month, the guys at the Hawken Cleaver head office meet up and hold a secret storytelling ritual.

They practice their lunging, trade Pokemon cards,

swallow an entire digestive biscuit,

and sacrifice the neighbour's cup of tea.

From the Swapses left over,

the aches in their groin and the tea-stains

and the neighbour's kitchen floor

a theme emerges.

This month's fiend.

Metamorphosis.

So get ready, because these aren't the stories your mother used to tell you. No, these are the other stories. Hello and welcome back to the other

stories. This is, um. This is another volume opener.

I don't know if you've noticed, but before every volume,

we like to just get into it, you know, find out what's going on,

give you an update and that kind of thing.

I don't know if you've noticed as well.

We've also been running a competition this past four weeks.

We've been giving away five printed copies of the other stories,

the collected edition it collects all of the stories from volumes one to three.

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