Katherine Quevedo | Until It Has Your Reflection

Katherine Quevedo | Until It Has Your Reflection

Author: Adamant Press January 18, 2023 Duration: 20:11
I hold the crayon to the mirror, ready to swipe it across my reflection’s neck just as my husband, Tomas, instructed. Make a quick horizontal line, then break the crayon against the glass. Snap it like you would your reflection’s neck. I’ve chosen the shade closest to my skin tone because it feels fitting for the occasion, the brown that I’d had to explain to our kindergartener was not “the skin color” crayon. Not everyone has skin as dark as ours, and some have darker. I imagine similar conversations in other households, about other crayons. ©2023 by Katherine Quevedo. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)
Podcast Episodes
Andrew Snover | The Forgetter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:39
I work in a tall brick room with peaked cathedral ceilings. At one end of the room there is a brick-lined chute, chimneylike, that opens up out of the ceiling seventy-five or a hundred feet above a yawning pit in the flo…
Megan Kiekel Anderson | Chase Scene [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:29
My little brother once chased me through the house with an ax. He was joking, mostly. But it certainly didn’t feel like a joke at the time. He plunged forward with a guttural battle cry at the start of the chase. His fac…
R.A. Busby | Ten Thousand Crawling Children [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:24
Pregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and forcing you to replicate it trillions of times. Soon, your hostage cell floats…
Ashlee Lhamon |  For All Your Other Daughters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:20
Western texts date the discovery of vagina dentata to 1800 BCE, to the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, the oldest medical text in the world. Misalignment of the lower jaw is detailed, for which regular application of date…
Lynette S. Hoag | Bête Noire [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:07
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 14:02 GMT. There is movement on the pathway for the first time in 113 days, six hours, four minutes, and five seconds. My motion sensitive cameras flicker on. I see Maker. Maker is not alone. | © 20…
Woody Dismukes  |  The Curse of the Boto Boy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:30
Even before my son was born, my village had made of me a black sheep. When I was young, I would slither between the grasp of the Elders and flitter into the jungle unabated. I would storm past the hills of fire ants to l…
Sharang Biswas | Waiting for Jonah [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:52
Once upon a time, there was you and there was Jonah. “Jonah!” you would call out. “Jonah, it’s me! Let me in!” But he’d never let you in. Before you turned ten, the inside of Jonah’s room remained as opaque as the inside…
David Janisch | The Cello in the Cell [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:57
Dear Andy: The day I was arrested, someone bought the winning Powerball lottery ticket that was worth 1.2 billion dollars. I remember dreaming what I would have done if I had won. You might not believe me, but I’m being…
Rachael K. Jones | The Sound of Children Screaming [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:05
You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Thurman Elementary, and it won’t sign in at the front office or wear a v…
Donyae Coles | The Ascension of Magdalene [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:28
It felt a little like fucking. Reminded Magdalene of the first time she’d ever let a boy get a hand up her skirt, long before Ben but he didn’t know that, she wore white on her wedding day. Couldn’t even remember his nam…