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100.1 Totality
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100.1 Totality
For as long as Lana Chand can remember, strange creatures have visited her late at night, warning her about a terrible future from which they can offer an escape. But now that time has run out, she wonders if the price of salvation is too high.
Written by Dexter McLeod (http://www.linktr.ee/dextermcleod)
Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://x.com/georgiacooked)
Produced by Karl Hughes (https://x.com/karlhughes)
With music by Dark Fantasy Studio (http://darkfantasystudio.com/)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
And sound effects provided by Freesound.org
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
A quick thanks to our community managers, Jasmine Arch, Joshua Boucher, and his eyeless ones Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty
And Joshua Boucher for helping with our submission reading.
And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.
Dexter McLeod resides in western Kentucky, where he writes in the darker shades of Southern Gothic, folk and cosmic horror, science fiction, and the New Weird. His work has been published by Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Air and Nothingness Press, Dark Moon Books, The Horror Tree, TDotSpec, and the Hugo Award finalist/European SF Award-winning magazine, Sci Phi Journal. His stories have also been performed in a half-dozen volumes of Hawk & Cleaver's The Other Stories and in Dissonance Media's Gothic horror podcast series, After the Gloaming. Visit linktr.ee/dextermcleod to connect with him online.
**Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for publications such as Baffling, Vastarien Lit, and Flame Tree press, as well as the Doctor Who range with Big Finish. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/**
Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/
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Grab some merch at https://gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver
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 Hotel - Part Three: Simon
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The Hotel - Part Two: Claire
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