98.1 Worth a Thousand Words
Ainsley Kay has tried her best to survive the loss of her family, but when every piece of art in the world becomes a horrifying gateway to a nameless evil, her grief and solitude becomes too much to bear.
Written by Dexter McLeod (http://www.linktr.ee/dextermcleod)
Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://instagram.com/efventu)
Produced by Chidozie Uzochukwu (www.x.com/studio55audios)
With music by Daniel Birch (https://danielbirchmusic.com)
And adneonlux (https://adneonlux.bandcamp.com/)
And Enough Records (https://enoughrecords.scene.org/)
And Ghosthack (https://www.ghosthack.de/)
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 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 will soon appear in Dissonance Media's Gothic horror podcast series, After the Gloaming. Visit linktr.ee/dextermcleod to connect with him online.
Erika Ventura is an artist, mother, bilingual narrator, and a husbandry technician. How does she manage it all? No idea, but her artwork can be seen on Instagram (@efventu) or you can visit her artist page www.facebook.com/BioArtsy
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