Kenneth Schneyer | Winding Sheets

Kenneth Schneyer | Winding Sheets

Author: Adamant Press October 14, 2024 Duration: 17:22
Gallam didn’t look at the clothes the family provided until he had already prepared the body. “Prepared” was putting it mildly: the man was covered in wounds—blade wounds? Bite wounds? Gouges, rips, punctures, slices. | © 2024 by Kenneth Schneyer. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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Russell Nichols | Autonomy of a Murder [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:24
I’m not telling you this to convince you of my innocence. The verdict has already been reached, the seal of my fate has been affixed. | © 2024 by Russell Nichols. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad cho…
Ai Jiang | Ashes like the Leaves of Tea, Lava like Honey [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:29
Mother whispered to us about the beings on Earth she regretted creating; the ones whose only merits are their minds, but their minds rot so easily. | © 2024 by Ai Jiang. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad…
Jae Steinbacher | The Ex Hex [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:22
Talis had a problem. They’d copied the spell incorrectly, in a fury, after seeing photos of their ex with a new date in “their” spot. | © Jae Steinbacher. Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices.…
Sagan Yee | Two Motes in the Zeugma Dark [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:28
Every date followed the same pattern. After the dinner and drinks, and the long moonlit walk along the canal, Jules would casually remark that the hangar was not far from here, and would they like to come see? | © 2024 b…
Osahon Ize-Iyamu | We the People Excluding I [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:51
We were in the mines when the world was falling apart. I remember, the earth was cracking, and the plants were going limp, and the world looked dark blue, less full of life. | © 2024 Osahon Ize-Iyamu. Narrated by Alison…