Are you sitting comfortably or your earphones securely fastened to your head?

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

Once a month the guides at the Hawke and Cleaver head office meet up and hold a secret storytelling ritual.

They practice their lunging, trade Pokemon cards, swallow an entire digestive biscuit in one, and sacrifice the neighbor's cup of tea.

From the shinies left over, the aches in their groins and the tea stain on the neighbor's kitchen floor, a theme emerges.

This month's theme, Coming of Age.

So get ready. These aren't the stories your mother used to tell you.

No, these are the other stories.

Hi there and welcome to the other stories.

My name's Daniel Wilcox. I'm your host for today and I'm filling in for Luke as Luke is currently

hibernating in a cave surrounded by Eminem's and Peanut Brittle. I kind of hope that he's not allergic to peanuts because I accidentally stole his EpiPen. So whether or not we'll see him in the future remains to be told.

So this is a The Other Stories volume opener.

This is the part where we say goodbye to the theme past and we welcome with open arms the upcoming theme which

this month is coming of age now animal attack was one of my

personal favorite themes and it it brought with it some wonderfully graphic

horrific wonderful scenes of hawks attacking writers snakes lions insects for

anyone who hasn't checked out all those stories yet, I highly recommend them.

They will make you see the world in a completely different light.

And with the coming theme, which is the coming of age, it'll be very interesting.

It's been, that theme itself promises quite a broad spectrum of possible

story, so it'll be interesting to see what kind of magic the Hawken Cleaver guys come up with

there. Um, but it's very, very exciting. It's very cool to look forward to. In general

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