The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

A down-on-his luck driver encounters an unusual woman in the rain, unaware of her deadly attraction.

Written by J.L. Royce (https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJLRoyce)

Narrated by James Barnett AKA Jimmy Horrors (https://www.instagram.com/jimmyhorrors/)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content he fires out of his Social Media canon.

J. L. Royce is a published author of science fiction, the macabre, and whatever else strikes him. He lives in the northern reaches of the American Midwest. His work appears in Allegory, Ghostlight, Little Demon, Love Letters to Poe, Mysterion, parABnormal, Sci Phi, Utopia, Wyldblood, etc. He is a member of HWA and GLAHW and was a Finalist in the Q3 2020 Writers of the Future competition. Some of his anthologized stories may be found at: amazon.com/author/jlroyce.

James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast. A short story fiction podcast with tales of horror and the paranormal. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.jamesbarnettauthor.com

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A short smattering of flash fiction stories to tide you over until the big bad Santa man comes...

The Colours of Christmas

Written by Grant Longstaff (https://grantlongstaff.co.uk/)

Narrated by Luke Kondor (https://www.lukekondor.com)

The Wooden Doll

Written by Matt Micheli (https://www.instagram.com/micheliworld/)

Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://www.instagram.com/efventu/)

The Christmas Gnome

Written by Lisa Rose

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://www.twitter.com/georgiacooked)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)

The episode illustration was provided by Kristýna Plíhalová (https://www.instagram.com/kristyna.plihalova/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver

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This episode of The Other Stories has been sponsored by the Maniac On The Loose Scary Stories podcast. For more information head over to www.maniacontheloose.com.

The Weight of Your Glare

When a young girl is bartered away to a god, she will do whatever it takes to free herself. This story looks at the Medusa myth from the perspective of the monster herself, but how much of a monster is she really?

Written and narrated by Jasmine Arch (https://www.jasminearch.com)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Blear Moon (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Jasmine Arch is a writer, poet, narrator, podcaster and all round chaos-for-brains Jasmine Arch lives in a nook of Belgian countryside with two horses, four dogs, and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Other Stories, NewMyths.com and Hybrid Fiction, among others. Find out more about her or her work at JasmineArch.com.

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A Customs and Border Protection manager pushes for answers when a strange package is flagged for inspection. He comes to realize that some truths are best left in the shadows.

Written by David Tremblay

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.twitter.com/justinbfife)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

David Trembley is the author of Coffin Street, a short horror story and A Shiver in The Dark, a collection of short and flash horror fiction, both available on Amazon.

Justin Fife is an audio producer, amateur voice actor, podcaster, and video game lover. Follow him on Twitter at @justnbifife

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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A young woman stumbles upon a strange subterranean nightclub during a night out, where a gruesome party has been raging since the dawn of myth and legend.

Written and narrated by Georgia Cook (https://www.twitter.com/georgiacooked)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://www.twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Karl Hughes (https://www.twitter.com/karlhughes)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver

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Intro by Luke Kondor (https://www.twitter.com/lukeofkondor)

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Furness Lane

Written & Narrated by Chris Ovenden (https://twitter.com/Chrovenden)

Music by Myuu (https://soundcloud.com/myuu)

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 As others flee in a boat, two figures contemplate the ocean from the top of a cliff at the end of all things.

Written by Paul M. Feeney (https://www.instagram.com/paulmfeeney50)

Narrated by Perephone Rose (https://twitter.com/MPersephoneRose)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Blear Moon (https://blearmoon.bandcamp.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com   

Paul M. Feeney has had a number of shorts published since 2014, plus two novellas. A novelette, Cursed, was released in 2020, one of a series of stories featuring his shape-shifting PI Garrison Wake. Find him on Instagram and Amazon.

Persephone Rose plans to live long enough, with the help of cybernetic augmentations, to travel to the stars and make extraterrestrial friends.  When she isn't performing Satanic rituals, she scrapes by as a writer and voice actor of things that are not always for the faint of heart.

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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Ever since the zombies came, Kate's been waiting for the phone to ring. When it does, she'll wish it hadn't.

Written by Paul Stephenson (http://paulstephensonbooks.com)

Narrated by Luke Kondor (https://www.lukekondor.com)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://www.twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Kai Engel (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

For more of Paul Stephenson’s writing head over to http://paulstephensonbooks.com.

Check out more of Luke’s work over at http://www.lukekondor.com 

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver

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Children in a society driven underground by a past worldwide war learn how to survive. 

Written by James Dorr (http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com)

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/georgiacooked)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Silicon Transmitter (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silicon_Transmitter/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Indiana writer James Dorr's The Tears of Isis was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® finalist for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; with his latest book, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press. Dorr has been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician. He currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana. Blog: http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com

Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver

T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver

Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services 

The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it. 

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Intro by Luke Kondor (https://www.twitter.com/lukeofkondor)

Writing Advice by Jasmine Arch (https://jasminearch.com/)

Resources mentioned:

https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

https://duotrope.com/

https://www.smithwriter.com/foreign_market_list.htm

You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver

T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver

Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services

The Other Stories is a production the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.

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