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XII: A Different Kind of Holy

Season 1, Ep. 12

This week, Alfie describes fates worse than death, and muses on the horrible feeling of waiting for something to happen. 


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-12/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bBLeEd-yyR_27mPUj_tAMnoZ5HZHG84Vr5kbVEtgxjs/edit?usp=sharing


Show-wide Content Warnings

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings


Episode Twelve, Content Warnings

- discussion of violent deaths

- scenes of sexual nature

- descriptions of decay

- descriptions of blood 

- descriptions of panic attacks


Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Live, laugh, bite.

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