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Music Gary in for that great review. All right, so now to get to our show. Hi, I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 584 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is J.T. Petty, writer and director of horror films such as The Burrowers, mimic three, and hellbenders.

He's also been a writer on video games such as Splinter Cell, Minecraft Story Mode, and Outlast.

Ant in this interview will be speaking with him about his short stories, which have appeared in magazines such as Cemetery Dance, Lightspeed, and Tour.com, and about his role as executive producer on the new Amazon

series Secret Level, a collection of animated shorts set in the worlds of popular video games.

And now here's our interview with J.T. Petty.

All right, so we're here with J.T. Petty. Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Okay, so first of all, just tell us about how you got started writing and publishing short fiction.

Man, short fiction came probably in the middle of my career, I guess.

I guess I'd already started working in games and movies by that point.

But I just always, I think being a prose writer is probably what I started off wanting to be when I was,

you know, five or six or whatever.

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