The following episode may include stuff that disturbs you and not in the good fun way.

With that in mind and with you forewarned, on we go.

Hi folks, Alister here.

As you've probably heard us talk about, EA is in the middle of our first end of year fundraising campaign.

We'll recap the details and ways you can help at the end of the episode.

Welcome to Sudapod, the Weekly Horror Podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this amazing story is part of our 2023 anthology and collection showcase and comes to you from Eden Royce.

The story was originally published in Vastarian and was reprinted in the 2023 collection

Who Lost I Found. Eden is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist,

and her short stories have appeared in a variety of publications,

including Fire Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction,

the Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Strange Horizons,

Nightmare Magazine and Suipod.

She has written articles for Writers Digest with The Horn Book magazine and We Need Diverse Books. Her debut novel, Root Magic, is a Walter Dean Myers Award Honorary,

an Andre Norton Nebula Award finalist, an Ignite Award winner winner and a Mythopaic Fantasy Award winner

for Outstanding Children's Literature.

Hollow Tongue, her first adult horror novella,

will be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in 2024.

Find her online at Edenroyse.com.

You're narrated this week his friend of the show and goodest of humans, Tonya Ransom.

Check out Nightlight and Afflicted, two of the best horror shows

out there for just some of their amazing work. Now, get home before nighttime, because we have

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