Fred (host, reader)

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Undertow: Familiar Haunts · The Green Book, Part 1 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

There was nothing but the gray, heavy sky and the sides of the hollow.

Everything else had gone away, and the hollow was the whole world, and I thought that at night it must be full of ghosts and moving shadows and pale things when the moon.

shone down to the bottom at the dead of night, and the wind wailed up above.

It was so strange and solemn and lonely, like a hollow temple of dead heathen gods.

It reminded me of a tale my nurse had told me when I was quite little.

It was the same nurse who took me into the wood, where I saw the beautiful white people.

And I remembered how Nurse had told me the story one winter night, when the wind was beating the trees against the wall, and crying and moaning in the nursery chimney,

She said there was, somewhere or other, a hollow pit, just like the one I was standing in.

Everybody was afraid to go into it or near it.

It was such a bad place.

But once upon a time there was a poor girl who said she would go into the hollow pit, and everyone tried to stop her, but she would go.

And she went down into the pit and came back laughing, and said there was nothing there at all, except green grass and red stones, and white stones, and yellow flowers.

And soon after people saw she had

most beautiful emerald earrings.

And they asked how she got them, as she and her mother were quite poor.

But she laughed and said her earrings were not made of emeralds at all, but only of green grass.

Then one day she wore on her breast the reddest ruby that anyone had ever seen.

It was as big as a hen's egg and glowed and sparkled like a hot burning coal of fire.

And they asked her how she got it, as she and her mother were quite poor.

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