A phantom stalks the halls of Pseudopod Towers, a phantom made of terror, disconcertingness, and really scary things.

That phantom is Pseudopod. That Phantom is here now.

Sudapod, episode 939 for September 20, 2024. Cheating Death by Henry Hertz.

Narrated by Tanya Milosovich, hosted by Cat Day with audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing okay. I'm Cat, Assistant Teller at Sudapod,

your host for this week, and I'm excited to tell you that for this week we have

cheating death by Henry Hertz. This material originally appeared in the

hitherto secret experiments of Mary Curie edited by Brian Thomas Schmidt and Henry L. Hurts,

published by Blackstone Publishing, copyright 2023.

Henry Hurts's stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Meta Stella,

Highlights for Children, Lady Bug magazine and anthologies from Albert Whitman and Co,

Blackstone Publishing, Bridget's Gate Press,

Aere and Nothingless Press, Bayon Books, Titan Books and elsewhere.

He's edited six anthologies and written 12 picture books. Check out his blog.

W.W.W. Henry Hurts.com

Tanya Molossovich is originally from Serbia but has been in the US since the age of five.

She has been voice acting since her senior year of high school and can be heard all over, including

darker projects, Broken Sea Audio Productions, 90 Nocturn Boulevard, Edix Zero, Pendant and Dunsteiff.

She produces her own radio dramas and posts them to her podcast Lightning Bolt Theater of the Mind.

She says, I'm visually impaired and have ROP in glaucoma,

but use Goldwave and Sound Forge to record and post-produce my audio.

One quick note from me before we get started. This story mentions a gymnasium

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