Stay ConnectedThese aren’t the stories your mother used to tell you … no, these are The Other Stories. The Other Stories is a weekly short story podcast. A modern take on The Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, or The Outer Limits. Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF stories delivered right to your podcast feed every Monday morning.
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The Hand Of Glory
'A solo mission to recover a missing fellow superhero from the Appalachian Mountains goes awry for newly-inducted heroine The Wren.'
Written by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/georgiacooked)
Narrated by Alexandra Elroy
Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
With music by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for his content loop-de-loops and double helixs’s he takes us on on his Social Media Rollercoaster. Scream if you want to go faster! AAAGGGHHH!
Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/
Alexandra is a bilingual voice actress and writer who lives in the Netherlands. She loves everything to do with stories, especially creative and playful horror. Her favourite voices to do are witches, goblins and crazy computers.
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
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The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
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Intro by Luke Kondor (https://www.twitter.com/lukeofkondor)
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
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The Other Stories is a production the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
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This episode has been sponsored by the Getting Started Writing Short Horror Stories MiniCourse. Find out more at https://theotherstories.net/minicourse.
An Arm and a Leg
'Keegan Gibson's mother has one failing kidney left and only four months to live. A man offers Keegan a bit of hope, but it comes at a heavy price.'
Written by Lawson Ray (https://www.twitter.com/RealLawsonRay)
Narrated by Grant Patrizio (https://www.grantpatrizio.com/)
Edited by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
With music by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
And sound effects provided by Freesound.org.
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for content marathons he runs in the name of social media... and really tight shorts. Go on, Ben!
Lawson Ray is a fiction/horror writer who posts short stories every other week to his website at lawsonray.com. You can also find him on Twitter @RealLawsonRay.
Grant Patrizio has lent his skills to a variety of audiobooks, animated works, video games, and audio dramas, one of which got him nominated for an Audioverse Award in 2019! It's been an incredible ride so far, and the best is yet to come!
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
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This episode has been sponsored by Beasts of Immortality: Blood and Purpose by Paul J. Kearns. Grab a copy today over at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.
The Pleasure of Pain
'When a user is introduced to a drug that makes pain pleasurable and then hooks up with a dominatrix, it was always likely to end up in A&E. The question is, what was done on the operating table?'
Written by Liam Hogan (http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk)
Narrated by James Barnett AKA Jimmy Horrors (https://twitter.com/jimmyhorrors)
Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
With music by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
And Chris Zabriskie (https://soundcloud.com/chriszabriskie)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for serving up fresh scoops of content from his social media Ice Cream Van.
Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). More details at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk
James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast. You can also catch other works of his at http://www.jamesbarnettauthor.com
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
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The Audsley Chimera
Nick dreams of engineering the creatures of his childhood story books. But perhaps some things should remain as dreams.
Written by Die Booth (https://diebooth.wordpress.com/)
Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.twitter.com/justinbfife)
Edited by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
With music by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington, or shall I say, Houston, for the atmosphere-bursting content rockets he launches from his social media space station. ‘Houston, we have a facebook post.’
Head over to https://diebooth.wordpress.com/ for more of his work.
Audio producer, amateur voice actor, podcaster, and video game lover, follow Justin Fife on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/justinbfife
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
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This episode has been sponsored by the Getting Started Writing Short Horror Stories MiniCourse. Find out more at https://theotherstories.net/minicourse.
Skin Deep
A celebrity cosmetic surgeon finds himself employed to assess the strange new growths on the neck of a former Hollywood star.
Written and Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/georgiacooked)
Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
With music by JCM [Canada] (https://soundcloud.com/j_c_m)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for whistling out content melodies from the end of his social media pan pipes.
Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Intro by Luke Kondor (https://www.twitter.com/lukeofkondor)
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode has been sponsored by the Maniac On The Loose Scary Stories Podcast. Find out more at www.maniacontheloose.com
The Right One
'How far would you go to serve the one?'
Written by Mark Towse (https://www.instagram.com/towseywrites/)
Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.twitter.com/justinbfife)
Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
With music by JCM [Canada] (https://soundcloud.com/j_c_m)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for the hot lava eruptions of content he spurts from the end of his social media volcano.
Check out more of Mark Towse’s work at https://marktowsedarkfiction.wordpress.com/
**Audio producer, amateur voice actor, podcaster, and video game lover, follow Justin Fife on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/justinbfife**
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode has been sponsored by the Maniac On The Loose Scary Stories Podcast. Find out more at www.maniacontheloose.com
Church Of The Chronically Ill
'A young man is initiated into a cult that worships sickness and disease.'
Written by Brendan Vidito (https://brendanvidito.com/)
Narrated by Grant Patrizio (https://www.grantpatrizio.com/)
Edited by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
With music by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for the content pikes, seat drops, and swivel hips, he performs each week on the social media tramampoloine
Brendan Vidito is the author of the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection of body horror stories, Nightmares in Ecstasy. He also co-edited the Splatterpunk Award-nominated anthology The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg. He lives in Ontario, Canada.
Grant Patrizio has lent his skills to a variety of audiobooks, animated works, video games, and audio dramas, one of which got him nominated for an Audioverse Award in 2019! It's been an incredible ride so far, and the best is yet to come!
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode has been sponsored by the Maniac On The Loose Scary Stories Podcast. Check it out at http://www.maniacontheloose.com
The Nuns In The Woods
'Devin has been going into the woods at night to investigate a local legend about an order of dead nuns who live there. Things get a little out of hand when he decides one night to bring some friends along.'
Written by Chris Lillienthal (www.ChrisLWrites.com)
Narrated by Jasmine Arch (https://jasminearch.com/)
Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)
With music by UMCorps (https://soundcloud.com/umcorps)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch
And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington for the catchy content showtunes he bellows out from the social media Broadway production.
Chris Lilienthal is a fiction writer whose work has been published in anthologies from Dragon Soul Press, Eerie River Publishing, and Unsettling Reads. He lives with his wife, two sons, and two dogs. Learn more at www.ChrisLWrites.com.
Jasmine Arch is a writer, poet, narrator, podcaster and all round chaos-for-brains Jasmine Arch lives in a nook of Belgian countryside with two horses, four dogs, and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Other Stories, NewMyths.com and Hybrid Fiction, among others. Find out more about her or her work at JasmineArch.com.
You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver
You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver
T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services
The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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