Owen McCuen
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1,473 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Owen McCuen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was around that time I asked for more hamsters, wanting him to have little friends.
The answer was always no, until I walked into the living room one evening to my parents not watching a movie together.
They had a notepad they passed back and forth, taking turns writing in it.
My mother's face was red and my father's jaw was clenched tight.
I think Soot really needs a friend, I said, holding him in his ball.
My mother sighed, and before she could say anything, my father agreed and stood up and told me to get my shoes on.
I don't remember the drive.
I'm sure my father tried to tell me about how he and my mother were not doing so great and that they both still loved me.
It made sense, and it's what I would have done too.
Instead, all I remember was staring into Soot's endless eyes.
When we walked into that store, the bell chimed as the door opened, and the owner looked at me and the hamster in his ball.
He pulled my dad aside, and I half heard their conversation as he softly yelled at my father, saying he would not take that hamster back.
When my father said he wanted some more hamsters, the store owner shouted that there would be no exchanges.
They argued for a while, and the confusion on my father's face was apparent.
I wasn't paying close enough attention, though.
I was scouting out soot's new family.
The store's shelves had supplies in colorful boxes stacked all the way to the water-stained ceiling tiles.
But instead of a minotaur in this maze, I searched for hamsters.
A parrot screeched as we walked by, and I nearly dropped the ball.
The other birds all flew in a panic, slamming against their cages as if there were a predator in there with them.
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