Megan McDuffee

From writer Heidi Hinda Chadwick, narrated by Risa Montanez, Creepy Presents, Somebody to Love.

And next, a reclusive retiree investigating a strange winged corpse near her mountain cabin uncovers a hidden species whose existence challenges everything she believes about identity, transformation, and the natural world.

From writer Jen Melatoris and narrated by Megan McDuffie, Creepy Presents Goose Flash

And finally, a murdered man remains conscious after death, trapped in his coffin alone as his thoughts begin to drift.

From writer Mark T. Bates, Creepy Presents, Reborn.

Darkness.

Cold, empty darkness.

Accompanied with a deafening silence as I lay paralyzed in fear and internal suffering,

as I have done now for God knows how long.

The silence is eventually broken as the sound of loose soil being scattered over my casket takes over my senses.

The sound becomes heavier and the noise becomes a humming drone inside my head, while a sickening, dank musk slowly fills my lungs.

the taste of a premature death.

Then, I am visited by a ghostly silence once more,

and the feeling that I'm falling, my numb body dropping uncontrollably in slow motion.

Pins and needles shudder through me, traveling upwards from my toes before exploding in my mind like a crescendo of smashed ice, and somehow it then seems even darker and my body succumbs to the infinite gloom.

I am left only with my thoughts of a life left behind, now just fading memories.

I had a family that loved me, a family I still love deeply, a wife, a young daughter who had recently started school, a daughter who now faced an uncertain life without the father who cared and provided for her.

A father she adored.

A father murdered as I walked home alone at night after an evening drinking at the local tavern.

A ten minute walk along the cobbled streets of our village.