Owen McCuen
speaker
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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 2.
Appearances
It was something different.
"'How?'
I asked.
"'Just let you outside?'
The darkness solidified around me, and the lights in Soot's eyes glowed with the light of the cosmos."
His little mouth opened, and instead of the pink flesh inside I usually saw, it was a pit of black, writhing tendrils that reached out thrashing at the cage.
I fell backward, thudding loudly on the floor.
Footsteps rushed up the hallway, and my mother flung the door open checking on me.
She assumed I fell out of bed half asleep and helped me lie back down.
She sat with me for a while, then I pretended to sleep.
It couldn't keep my eyes closed, though.
The darkness behind my lids reminded me too much of the abyss in Soot's jaws.
The hamster ran on its wheel until my mother left, and as her footsteps faded down to the other end of the house, Soot stopped returning to the cage.
The tendrils continued to taste the air thrashing around, and in the center of that flower of tentacles, an eye opened, and below it, a small, sharp-toothed mouth opened.
Then, in a voice that mimicked my own, it said, "'It's time to wake up before you can't.'"
I sat up to the sun rising on the horizon and the sound of the hamster wheel turning.
I put him outside that morning, only to find him back in his cage when I returned from school.
The dreams continued and interrupted my daily life far more often.
I would sit in class and hear such a ball rolling down the hallway, the sound of plastic on tile too particular to be anything else.
His eyes stared at me from the shadows and I would hear his voice in the silence of our reading time saying, release me.
Showing 741–760 of 1,473 · page 38 of 74
← Previous
Next →