It's with a quiet feeling of dread (and excitement) that I invite you to tune in this Friday, June 3 (or later, if Friday doesn't work for you), for the broadcast premiere of my story "Restraint" on Tales to Terrify (Episode 540), a weekly horror fiction podcast that gets under your skin, lays eggs, and hatches writhing baby horrors nursed on your darkest fears.
"Restraint" -- read by Amy Paonessa -- is a story about a werewolf desperately trying to keep her shit together while contending with increasing provocations from sources which have no regard for her as a person whatsoever. I've discovered some people find this story very uncomfortable, so if you listen -- and I really hope you do -- I feel it's only fair to suggest you prepare for some strong adult content (of the icky-not-sexy variety).
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