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Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story podcast. Enter freely and of your own free will. I am your humble host, Terence Taylor, one very much at home with the children of the night.

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Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon Gobelah, guides us down into beautiful darkness. In this episode, before our full-length story, we have a short shot for Eggs, written by our Diego Martinez and narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. But first, a word from our sponsors.

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And now, Stefan Rudnicki. Dregs, by our Diego Martinez. They fell just to splatter on the concrete, some of them small as ice cubes. It was a day without clouds, and the man selling fruit from his stand on the corner was nearly concussed as they began to patter against the street

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