PseudoPod 966: Fat Betty

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Author : H. R. Laurence Narrator : Matthew Hamblin Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Fat Betty” originally appeared in Shock Totem Issue 8 in 2014 From the author: “The story is meant to be set in a slightly dystopian near-future (‘Iran’ as mentioned is correct, it’s supposed to reference a war […]

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0:00.0	The podcast in front of you rattles unsettlingly. Something skitters inside. The label shifts into
0:05.1	view, warning. Adult content.
0:11.4	Sudapod, episode 966, March 14th, 2025. This week's story, Fat Betty, by H.R. Lawrence,
0:20.6	narrated by Matthew Hamblin, hosted by
0:22.9	Alistair-Stuart, with audio production by Chelsea Davis. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Sudapod,
0:28.9	the weekly horror podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from
0:33.5	H.R. Lawrence. HR grew up in North Yorkshire and now works in the film industry in London.
0:39.3	His weird fiction and sword and sorcery stories have appeared in multiple magazines and
0:43.5	anthologies, including heroic fantasy quarterly, Old Moon Quarterly, and he fantastically named
0:49.2	Beyond and Within, fog horror from Flame Tree Press.
0:53.6	Your narrator this week is Matthew Hamblin.
0:55.7	Matthew is a writer and videographer from Leeds in England.
0:59.2	He has a poncho on for good stories and the loose grasp of apostrophes,
1:02.4	and he owns a really cute dog named Bruce.
1:05.5	So, let's make an offering to Fat Betty.
1:10.2	A true one.
1:16.6	Fat Betty by H.R. Lawrence, narrated by Matthew, James Hamblin.
1:24.6	This ain't God's own country, and he always had a thing for rain.
1:29.2	I'm high and soaked, looking over the valley with a sea of heather at my back, and if the
1:34.2	storm lasts forty nights I'll not be shocked.
1:37.4	There's still a little light over the hills to the east, but it's cloud clogged overhead,
1:42.5	and the sunlight can't get through to where I'm huddled in
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