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EP12 Trefalgar and the Ape-Men of Haunted Wood by Nicholas Ozment
By admin | June 14, 2008
Read by Kada McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Nicholas Ozment teaches English at Winona State University. By night he is an sf writer of stories and poetry for publications such as Weird Tales, Mythic Delirium, SUSURRUS: THE LITERATURE OF MADNESS, MYTHIC CIRCLE, AFTERBURN SF, and RAVEN ELECTRICK. Two of his stories have been podcast on PSEUDOPOD. He reviews books and movies at DOWN IN THE CELLAR and MANNING’S MANLY MOVIES. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and a strange black dog.
by Nicholas Ozment
Marigold was bending over to pick a morel mushroom when she heard something crashing through the woods. It grew louder, coming towards her. Her heart jumped and she stood up straight, hoping it was only a spooked deer. She grasped the handle of the knife she carried beneath her cape, fearing it might be a far less pleasant denizen of the forest—a wolf or a boar or a bear. Not that the small knife would do the young girl much good against boar tusk or bear claw. It was more handy for whittling pocket-sized boars and bears out of sticks.
Then it—or rather he—burst from the trees not forty yards from her, running at full tilt. He came leaping over brambles and branches and bushes, his great long legs taking huge strides so that in the span of a heartbeat he was already nearly upon her. He was a gaunt, wiry giant of a man.
He didn’t notice Marigold until he nearly ran her over. Then his gangly body, all waving limbs like a daddy-longlegs spider, came to an abrupt halt. He towered over her, glaring down with gray, owl-like eyes
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June 20th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Nice job. I really enjoyed this story. I discovered your podcast through Escape Pod and the Union Dues story. I though the Union Dues story was a great fit for your podcast and look forward to hearing more. Keep up the good work!
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:37 am
Hey as of now the mp3 link is broke.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Hey there, None of the files are found for DL’s…
Looks like you got popular, eh?
July 4th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I liked this story. It didn’t go anywhere that was surprising, (or at least supposed to be). Marigold wasn’t Trafalgar’s daughter, stuff like that. The story, while it had its own little twists, didn’t try and surprise me with the same old twists. I like a straight story, or a story with a big twist that really gets me.
Excellent reading of the story! This is quickly becoming one of my favorite short fiction podcasts.
August 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I absolutely love this one! In my top 5 podcast stories ever.
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Thank you CDQ; I’m honored!
I hope someday to continue the story of Trefalgar and of Marigold.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Excellent; as expected.
Looking forward to more of these.