57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides by Sam J. Miller
My rating: 4/5 cats
SPOOKTOBER “DAY ONE”
some months ago, i decided that, for spooktober, i would do a version of my december short story advent calendar project in order to take advantage of the wealth of free horror audio shorts available courtesy of nightfire. and then i forgot about this plan. so i’m going to backtrack a bit here now and pretend i’ve been doing it all along for these past five days and then settle into a one-a-day listen. so bear with me as i catch up. i probably won’t be doing too extensive a review on any of these, but i’ll at least provide some links and you can check them out yourselves!
25 minutes
SO much better than Thirteen Reasons Why, this is a gay-boy twist on Carrie, in which a bullied teen with psychic abilities devises a plot with his bestie to rid themselves of these jerks once and for all. and although he does succeed, efficiently and decisively, having powers doesn’t rid you of all of your human weaknesses and sometimes you look around and realize you’re the jerk and your problems are only just beginning.
i was not prepared for this story to have sound effects, and one of them is such a perfect EW, i laughed out loud.
listen to it here:
https://play.google.com/books/listen?…
THE STORIES:
OCTOBER 2: SOME BREAKABLE THINGS – CASSANDRA KHAW
OCTOBER 3: EMERGENCY LANDING – SEANAN MCGUIRE
OCTOBER 4: THE CHANGELING – SARAH LANGAN
OCTOBER 5: THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, THE MADNESS OF MEN – BROOKE BOLANDER
OCTOBER 6: THE FIREPLACE – CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN
OCTOBER 7: BONE – TADE THOMPSON
OCTOBER 8: IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING – MOLLY TANZER
OCTOBER 9: DREAM HOME – KAT HOWARD
OCTOBER 10: SPAWNING SEASON – NICHOLAS KAUFMANN
OCTOBER 11: THE GIRLS FROM THE HORROR MOVIE – GWENDOLYN KISTE
OCTOBER 12: IT WASHED UP – JOE R. LANSDALE
OCTOBER 13: BLACK NEUROLOGY – RICHARD KADREY
OCTOBER 14: WHEN THE ZOMBIES WIN – KARINA SUMNER-SMITH
OCTOBER 15: WASP & SNAKE – LIVIA LLEWELLYN
OCTOBER 16: THIS GUY – CHUCK WENDIG
OCTOBER 17: THE POND – PAUL TREMBLAY
OCTOBER 18: A LIFE THAT IS NOT MINE – KRISTI DEMEESTER
OCTOBER 19: GREENER PASTURES – MICHAEL WEHUNT
OCTOBER 20: THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL YOU – LUCY A. SNYDER
OCTOBER 21: COLD, SILENT, AND DARK – KARY ENGLISH
OCTOBER 22: WAS SHE WICKED? WAS SHE GOOD? – M. RICKERT
OCTOBER 23: THE DAYS OF FLAMING MOTORCYCLES – CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
OCTOBER 24: FLAYED ED – RICHARD KADREY
OCTOBER 25: MAMA TULU – JESSICA GUESS
OCTOBER 26: THE VAULT OF THE SKY, THE FACE OF THE EARTH
OCTOBER 27: EL CHARRO – JOHN LANGAN
OCTOBER 28: STANDING WATER – CAITLIN R. KIERNAN
OCTOBER 29: MIDNIGHT CALLER – STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
OCTOBER 30: TOOTH, TONGUE, AND CLAW – DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS
OCTOBER 31: THE QUIET BOY – NICK ANTOSCA
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