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Within the Wires

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (audiobook excerpt #2)

Within the Wires

Night Vale Presents

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Here’s an excerpt from the new novel by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson: You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is out now... wherever you get your books. More info (and for places to order): https://bit.ly/3oQujfC The voice of the meta-narrator (Interlude & footnotes) is Adepero Oduye. The voice of Miriam Gregory (Chapter 10) is Kirsten Potter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey again, within the Wires listeners, our new novel, you feel it just below the ribs, is out.

0:05.2

Just this week we had a novel released, we're really thrilled about this book because

0:09.4

it's fun to write books and then share them with you in the world.

0:13.2

And this one is special because while it's set in the same post-great reckoning world as within

0:17.7

the Wires, it's a completely standalone sci-fi thriller told in the style of an annotated autobiography,

0:24.0

anyone can read it without ever having heard this show. So we're going to give you one more

0:29.2

excerpt from the audiobook which is narrated by Kirsten Potter and Adapara Oduye.

0:34.0

This is from the Metanerators Interlude and chapter 10 of Merriam's story.

0:39.6

Here we go, I hope you enjoy. Interlude.

0:45.0

There is a gap at this point in the manuscript that it seems important to address.

0:50.6

Nora Bostwick's account of her time during the Great Reckoning and the early days of the Arbor

0:55.5

Reedom puts her move to Munich in spring of 1931. We have no reason to doubt Dr. Gregory's claim

1:03.1

that her departure occurred immediately after Miss Bostwick's, but we have not been able to verify it.

1:09.8

While we have found several accounts of people who, at one time or another, lived at the farm while

1:15.1

Dr. Gregory was there, none of them remained there beyond Miss Bostwick's tenure.

1:19.7

There is a record of Dr. Gregory as a passenger on the SS Conte de Savoya in 1941.

1:26.8

The passenger liner departed Treesse on the 27th of October and docked in New York on the 22nd

1:34.3

of November. This means there is a gap of some 10 years between 1931 and 1941 in which Dr. Gregory's

1:42.4

activities and movements are unknown. If we assume that she journeyed in a consistent direction

1:48.4

during these years, she would have kept moving southeast after leaving the farm

1:53.6

through former Germany and Austria before arriving in the northeast of Italy.

1:58.9

Of course, we do not know when the doctor arrived in Treesse or how long she was there before

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