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CHARACTER BUILDING - EARWORMS VERSION (opens the original)
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CHARACTER BUILDING by Dan LongNarrated by EleanorA viral trend sweeps the world before everyone realises it has deadly consequences…This short story is an audio Earworm from The Quick And The Dread - an online anthology of weird tales written by Dan Long.You can find the original written version of this story right here.And if you enjoyed it, you can read or listen to more stories FOR FREE at danlong.substack.com, or by searching for EARWORMS - Audio Tales From The Quick And Th
Consigned (opens the original)
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“I know what you did.”The writing was small and neat, a clipped island of words in the middle of the sticky note.Alister stared at the words as they clung like a limpet to the front cover of his latest crime novel.The Circuit BreakA Newman St Francis Thrillerby best-selling authorAlister BalfourThe cover was various shades of black, with a stylised circuit board outlandishly outlining the distinct silhouette of Alister’s popular creation.But instead of his electric sleuth, the square of luminous
Canon (opens the original)
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Adam’s eyes rolled white and he screamed as the first flames licked up his shin. The fire whipped up again and the skin crackled, the hairs melting into the crazed patchwork of bubbling flesh. His wrists pulled tight against the restraints keeping his wrists bound behind his back, but there was no escape. This was it. The end.He certainly didn’t think it would finish up this way a few weeks ago, back in the Patronix lab. He had signed up to their relic regression programme straight out of colleg
Apogee (opens the original)
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The sky was still burning.Rory pressed his face against the control room window, looked to the heavens and shielded his eyes from the spreading heat of the final launch.Ice fell in his stomach as the magnitude of what was happening hit him.This was it.He was finally, truly alone.The last rockets streaking across the sky were now not much more than grains of rice and Rory watched each as they vanished from view, until none were left and all that remained were burning scars igniting the last remna
By Blood Undone (opens the original)
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“Dash it all.”The words hung in the dry air for a moment.“Dash it ALL!”The halls of Wormstead were as wide as they were long, which rendered pinpointing the source of any sound close to impossible – but the second of the antiquarian’s exclamations was loud and sharp enough to bring his young ward scurrying straight to his study.Red of brick and broad of edifice, the old Wormstead house had been home to the Atwell family for the last 150 years. Socially-speaking, it was considered moderate in siz
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