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

Amy is ordinary; she swears, uses social media and relies on smart technology to keep her home secure. However, when a package mysteriously arrives on her doorstep, she soon longs for more traditional methods of security, like locks and keys.

Written by Mike Hargreaves

Narrated by Jasmine Arch

Edited by Karl Hughes

With music by Spheriá, Umcorps, and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

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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Being yourself can be more difficult than you’d think - Especially when who you are keeps changing

Written by Andy Conduit-Turner

Narrated by Persephone Rose

Edited by Karl Hughes and Duncan Muggleton

With music by Duncan Muggleton and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Andy Conduit-Turner, is a UK based writer, editor and producer of fiction as well as an occasional podcast crasher and quiz host with a love of all things strange and spooky.

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What if life as you know it was not as you knew it. Where do you go when you don't know where you've been? What if the past you think you remember is now broken, fractured into something jarring and unrecognizable. What then?

Written by Matthew C. Butcher

Narrated by Josh Curran

Edited by Duncan Muggleton

With music by Velleitie and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Matthew C. Butcher is a novelist, writer for the chart-topping podcast 'The Other Stories' and soon to be breaking into the medium of graphic novels. He has a keen interest in near-future sci-fi and conspiracy and enjoys speculating at what point everything goes awry.

Despite the generally graphic and miserable themes in his writing, he promises he's actually quite a pleasant person. Honest.

Josh Curran is a narrator and writer. He has narrated many episodes of The Other Stories over the show’s lifetime. He is also the creator of the horror Audio-Drama podcast, Miscreation. You can follow him on twitter, @jcurranwriter

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Being a normal guy in a world of superheroes, it’s tough to feel like the hero of even your own story, but if you can find love your story could surpass them all.

Written by Richard Reynolds

Narrated by Persephone Rose

Edited by Karl Hughes

With music by Dee Yan-Key and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Free Music Archive and Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Richard Reynolds is the owner and operator of Ground Zero Comics, a small shop in Mansfield, England, but writes, draws and produces his own comics and strips whenever he gets the chance. You can read these comics for free on the shop’s website, groundzerocomics.co.uk - ‘free comics’ sidebar.

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.

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Things aren't going well for Stan Candera - the alien vessel that's been hovering above Bethlehem Tower since he was 16 has sparked into malevolent life, he's fallen in with a Cambodian street-gang, and he's about to miss his little sister's sixteenth birthday...

Written by Chris Kelso

Narrated by Justin Fife

Edited by Duncan Muggleton

With music by Umcorps and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Chris Kelso is a British Fantasy Award-nominated, multi-translated genre writer, illustrator, and anthologist. His work has been published in - 3AM Magazine, Black Static, Locus, Interzone, Daily Science Fiction, Antipodean-SF, SF Signal, Dark Discoveries, The Lovecraft e-zine, Sensitive Skin, Evergreen Review, Verbicide, The Unquiet Dreamer - a Literary tribute to Harlan Ellison, and many others.

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The Chase

Written by Jay Adair

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Two men battle for escape, knowing they are watched, but not knowing the rules of the game.

Written by Liam Hogan

Narrated by Justin Fife

Edited by Duncan Muggleton

With music by Duncan Muggleton and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Check out Liam Hogan's work at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.com

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In John Thirty’s community, efficiency is valued above all else. Efficiency is improved by the unique number tasks that strengthen every worker, transcending fatigue, pain, and the forgotten concept of violence.

Written by Sarah Jane Justice

Narrated by Persephone Rose

Edited by Karl Hughes

With music by Kai Engel and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Sarah Jane Justice is a South Australian creative whose work has been commended in a number of fields. She competed as a national finalist in the 2018 Australian Poetry Slam, counts four releases of original music to her name, and has seen her poetry and prose published around the world, including in releases from The Blue Nib, Black Hare Press, and Pure Slush.

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In a future, highly regulated society, the Authorities control all human behaviour, including how life companions are selected, even forbidding the use of the word love. Any societal transgressions are punished with banishment and scarring of the offenders. Before the banishment and scarring, a transgressor is compelled to write a handwritten confession.

Written by J. J. Steinfeld

Narrated by Josh Curran

Edited by Duncan Muggleton

With music by Andrew KN and Thom Robson 

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House

Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published 20 books, including Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell (Stories, Ekstasis Editions, 2015), An Unauthorized Biography of Being (Stories, Ekstasis Editions, 2016), Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be (Poetry, Guernica Editions, 2017), A Visit to the Kafka Café (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2018), and Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles (Stories, Ekstasis Editions, 2019). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over 50 of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States.

Josh Curran is a narrator and writer. He has narrated many episodes of The Other Stories over the show’s lifetime. He is also the creator of the horror Audio-Drama podcast, Miscreation. You can follow him on twitter, @jcurranwriter

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

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