"Sweet Certainty" + "Not Even a Fly"
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"Sweet Certainty" + "Not Even a Fly"

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 30, 202639 min

This episode features "Sweet Certainty" by Deborah L. Davitt (©2026 by Deborah L. Davitt) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Not Even a Fly" by Phoenix Alexander (©2026 by Phoenix Alexander) read by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story Podcast. Enter freely and veer on freewill. When I am your humble host, Jaren's Taylor, when very much at home are the children of the night.

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Stay close as my muse, the medieval demon Gobelan, guides us down into beautiful darkness. In this episode, before our full-length story, we have a poem, Sweet Certainty, written by Deborah L. Davitt and narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. But first, a word from our sponsors.

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And now, Stefan Rudnicki. Sweet Certainty by Deborah L. Dabet A beast of a shadow and swirling smoke, moonstalker and mist-bane, all curling claws and clenched teeth, followed me through the night, lapping at my strides, licking at my feet. I can feel it in my heart, thrumming like echoes

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