This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "I Am One of Bluebeard's Dead Wives" by Bella D. Bonne (© 2024 by Bella D. Bonne), narrated by Roxanne Hernandez and "A Long Time Afterward" by Sonya Taaffe (© 2024 by Sonya Taaffe), narrated by John Rubinstein.

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On an unmarked road somewhere in the Appalachians, a midnight blue Cadillac rolled to a stop, gravel popping under tires, headlights peering out into the discord of dusk. | © 2024 by Russell Nichols. Narrated by Mirron Willis.

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We hear you laughing as you speed by on the interstate. In spite of what you might think of us, we are a proud town. We don’t need your understanding. We don’t explain. You couldn’t handle the answers. | © 2024 by Cody Goodfellow. Narrated by Nan McNamara.

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This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "Painted Surfaces" by Guan Un (© 2024 by Guan Un), narrated by Arthur Morey and "Witches Sabbath" by Lisa M. Bradley (© 2024 by Lisa M. Bradley), narrated by Nan McNamara.

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Nine years, fifty-two days, seven hours until hyadeic convergence. Kayla watched the hot, empty cake pan smoke on the kitchen counter. It was her husband Henry’s birthday, and she’d planned a little surprise for him. | © 2024 by Erin Brown. Narrated by Nan McNamara.

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Haw Par Villa in the rain was a splash of garish color. The dark red footpath, glistening wet. The ornate tiered gate that greeted visitors with a carving of a tiger, etched in gold and blue. | © 2024 by Megan Chee. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki

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This month's Nightmare Short Shots episode features "Automaton Boy" by Sara S. Messenger (© 2024 by Sara S. Messenger) and "Phantom Taste of Apricot on My Tongue" by Richard Leis (© 2024 by Richard Leis), both narrated by Paul Boehmer.

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The soldiers start rounding up us factory girls just before sunrise. | © 2024 by Thomas Ha. Narrated by Susan Hanfield and Stefan Rudnicki.

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This poem sprang from its title, a product of old-school random-generator email spam. | © 2024 by Sonya Taaffe. Narrated by Justine Eyre.

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Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . . | © 2024 by Ally Wilkes. Narrated by Justine Eyre.

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At the tiny abbey in the province of Tasselt—the only abbey in the region with both an abbot and his monks and a dozen nuns as well (a temporary matter that had somehow become permanent)—the abbot, whose skin had gotten paler even as the veins beneath it had become more pronounced, and who preferred darkness to light of any kind, had taken over the West section of the abbey, with its many, darker rooms. | © 2024 by Bruce McAllister. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

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