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Hello, and welcome to A Nightmare

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Short Shop. My

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name is Alison Belle Buse, pleased to

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be your muse for this flash fiction

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podcast. This month's

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poem is Peanut Secrets of the

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Anunnaki by Sonia Taif, narrated

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by Justine Eyre, coming

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up right after this message. My

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family have worked the land for

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generations. My

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gran says the islands does not belong

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to us, but we belong to the

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island. And

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we must be ready for a great evil. His

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coming to have bas, gallendin, and

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by Sonya Taithe. This

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poem sprang from its title, a

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product of old school random generator

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email spam. I

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suspect it meant the Anunnaki and

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their pseudo scientific incarnations. But I

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thought of the sonic demon deities

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of the Akkadian underworld who preside

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over wars, plagues, cataclysms, and judgments.

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And yet there are marriages made in the

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land of no return. The state

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of the land of the living did the rest, ST.

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Increase your potency by as many

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times as the king of Orak

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came weeping to the bird faced

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threshold where his beloved rotted like

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a bowl of spoiled beer. Stay

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harder all night, longer than the

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shepherd sister with her spilled lap

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of agate and carnelian begged for

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his half life. Do

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not imagine that we do not love

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as avidly as a scab the skin,

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a fever the throat, a sword

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the spine, that we burn less

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suddenly than the ghost skate of

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sunset or the planet stained like

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a sacked city's wall. Before

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the flood, the world was for our

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kindling. Your rising tide,

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our fever will not break.

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You have just

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heard penis secrets of the Anunnaki by

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Sonia Tafe, narrated by Justine Eyre. In

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season two of Reformation Abroad, we rejoin

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team 119 who's facing the aftermath of

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a prison riot on the edge of a black hole. Here's

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a quick taste of season two. Team

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119 has been restructured. Would

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have been nice to know about that. The

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two of you are going to have to keep an

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ear to the ground for any and all signs of organized insurrection.

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Our most promising lead is a recent invitation to

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one of their Lights Out meetings in the

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lavatories. and

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closer to taking flight. I

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don't know how you can side with them, man. This

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is called tying up loose ends. All

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of them. Security 1-4, this is

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Echo 9. We have a prisoner who's running to

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unauthorized territory. He's making his way to the reactor

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room. Do you copy? Be

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sure to check out season two

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of Reformation Abroad, an immersive science

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fiction audio experience wherever you listen

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to your podcasts. Contained

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herein are the heresies of Red

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Wolf Buntwine, erstwhile

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monk turned traveling medical investigator.

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Join me as I study the secrets of

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the divine plagues and uncover

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the blasphemous truth that

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ours is not a loving God and

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we are not its favored children.

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The heresies of Red Wolf Buntwine, wherever

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podcasts are available. So

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now, let's get started. Sonya

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Tape reads dead languages and

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tells living stories. Her

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short fiction and rizzling award-winning

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poetry have been collected most

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recently in the Lambda-nominated Forget

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the Sleepless Shores and

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previously in Singing Innocence

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and Experience, postcards from

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the province of hyphens, A.

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Mais, Vichal, and Ghost

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Signs. She lives

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with her husband and two cats in

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Somerville, Massachusetts, where she writes about film

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for Patreon and remains proud of

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naming a Kuiper Belt object. This

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story was taken from the pages of

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Nightmare Magazine, which is edited by Wendy

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N. Wagner. The podcast

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is produced by Skyboat Media and the

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story and podcast are copyright 2024. Post-production

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was also available. by Alex Barton at Phase

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Shift and our music was composed and

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performed by Jack Kincaid. Once

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again, I am Alison Belle Buse

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and I hope this poem gave you

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something true. Thank you

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for listening.