O come, all ye faithful. Excerpt: There were always so many people on the beaches those days of the summer?s heat. They came with umbrellas and coolers and inhabited small squares of sand for the duration of several hours. Together, their grids of spaces collaborated into a small metropolis of unacquainted population. I walked those beaches, but [...]

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Catch me if you can. Excerpt: It came from the distance with patience and dedication. From a point of origin lost beyond the seas of matter, it traveled, setting out upon a path to reach the destination of which it chose—ages before knowledge was an aspect of existence. Once the path was formed, it did not stray—not [...]

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To what ends do you know? Excerpt: I walked through the truculent sands for many days without end. Their color glistened and appeared to shine brighter with each new dawning of the sun—a sun that radiated and shown power beyond the means of natural, un-orchestrated things. I could feel the sun?s reach and be witness to its [...]

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Make the sacrifice. Excerpt: The creations of the artisan were always magnificent. Every detail, contour, and finish orchestrated a perfection of visual embrace. The way his completed works mesmerized the most critical of art and the most cynical of achievement proved his worthiness to all who might own—or if but see—a piece of his allotted mastery. Even [...]

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Intro song for the Names series. Subscribe with iTunes

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Here is the first work of art inspired by a specific episode of The Dark Verse. It is created by John F. Stifter. See more of his art at QuantumCathedral.com. Preview (click the below link to view the full art): Subscribe with iTunes

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When you wish upon a star. Excerpt: By a very early age, I had learned the seriousness of sanctity—as far as it goes in relating to things unbound by the compass of the solvable. I knew, in other words, about the astringent potency of belief: what it was capable of and how it controlled and manipulated. There [...]

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What’s in a name? Excerpt: An amount of seasons befell me that I could not count before I became free. And surely it was an amount less than I would have thought, for time lingered awfully slow within the cool, decrepit cell of my prison holding. I did not mark the days and I did not note [...]

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Face your demons. Excerpt: My sister and I happened upon the variable of existence by chance. It might have been the way we walked in ghostly indifference under the setting sun?s light, or perhaps it was the way we stared disjointedly across the endless horizon. Nevertheless, we arrived. Like a layer resting between all things, it [...]

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Seeing is believing? Excerpt: On the softest of days, when the splinters of time bowed to uncanny sounds, I heard the ringing. It came from some region just closer than what could be called distant. As if drifting on a river of sustaining sound, the ringing reached my ears, tickling them like the elegant prose of a [...]

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Enter the never. Excerpt: One drop, three drops, twenty drops—then it was steady. The glass window facing the driveway fogged under my breathing as I watched the rain begin its exotic descension upon the glum spread of concrete and blood. My skin tingled while severe emotion shot through my body, invigorating my keenness during the very surreal [...]

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Where the wild things are. Excerpt: The movie man found me at an awards banquet. It was for my swim team, and it was the last place I expected to meet someone who would change my life. When his greeting occurred, all of the awards and speeches had been given and made, and things had just begun [...]

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What you see is what you get. Excerpt: There were certain shops that had no seizing affects outside of a planned visit, and then there were certain shops that quite brutally tortured if their magical, if not haunting, space was not investigated. Alluring displays, unorthodox merchandise, and toys—these were some of the things that made me curious, [...]

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Why must we go home? Because, where we came from, we so also must end. Excerpt: I awoke to the severe beating of my heart, which drove throbbing percussions through my temples. Beneath me, a sick, cold sweat lined the sheets. My hands were trembling and my throat was raw. I quickly rose from the bed in [...]

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Take what you can from this story. It is a mixture of many things strange and philosophical and religious. Obviously, just from its title, this story is about a great subject that has most likely surfaced at a dinner discussion or two. What I can promise you is that you have never read or heard [...]

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There is often a part of me that I wish did not exist. There are thoughts that I cannot control and actions I get caught up in. I guess these would be considered my flaws or imperfections. Sometimes I want to yank them out and let them burn. Even though I believe such things can [...]

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Here is the second part of The Changing Feyth series. Make sure you listen to the first part before listening to this episode—you will need to so you know what is going on! Excerpt: While others sleep, the feyth do not. While others dream beautiful and terrifying visions, the feyth always stir in the unrest of consciousness, [...]

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Through my eyes are the peoples of the world. I see them, at night, lying in their beds within the structures that spread over the earth. As if transparency were the walls containing them, I can find them, isolate them, and extract them in my mind, plucking them one by one between the fingers of [...]

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The mind is a strange place. Excerpt: I would lie in the middle of Turnby Road on those days when the wind would explain the seasons and the cold and the feelings quickly lit and quickly dampened. The leaves from elderly oak trees would carve their sacred fates between the airs, arousing the nostalgic memories of imagined [...]

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A noble came to me the other day. She was adamant about being released from a turmoil she could not plainly describe. When she arrived, her hair was a mess and her eyes were red and dry; she looked as if she had not slept for days. Before she even explained her situation, she begged [...]

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Everyone finds themselves at some point in their lives wishing they were someone else, or that the circumstances that befell them were different. But we live in a time where Botox and liposuction consume a state of mind with a myth that is, more often than not, impossible to reach. We also live in a [...]

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I have seen the woman dressed in violet. She came to me, suddenly, in my mind, and devoured my intelligence of judgment. With movements soft as slow moving water, she turned me against myself, indulging my nightmares with the promiscuity of the nations. I became the choice of kings—one small piece of the so many [...]

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I am hoping to create a little viral advertising. I made the website, www.immurement.com, with the purpose of forming some publicity for The Dark Verse. If you get a chance, please look at it and send it out like wild fire; it will be interesting to see what comes of it. Excerpt: My life started to deteriorate [...]

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I witnessed the star fall in the distance. I saw how it dropped low on the horizon, disappearing beneath the ocean before curving back around and out for but an instant, then vanishing away forever. There was nothing like it; nothing could be more surreal. The wars were on my mind at that time—how strange that [...]

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Sometimes it gets way too late when I post my new episode, and the energy I have left is in the negative. I really wish I could put a great introduction that asks a good, philosophical question every time, but my brain is always racked from thinking of ideas for the story. So, under the [...]

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The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Your eyelashes, I rip them out. Your eyelids, I pull them back. White fury bulging forth, black beads expanding out— No veins to carry what the heart cannot bear. Stare back, oh eyes of murder; Catch your last glimpse. Strain for moisture and for the living water that left a desert: Your soul. With lips of [...]

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The last few episodes of The Dark Verse have been mainly horror, but since it was my overall goal to have a podcast comprised of both horror and fantasy, I realized it was time to make a promising fantasy installment (and when I say fantasy, I do mean with a touch of horror and darkness). [...]

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The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Be wise with all endeavors of the heart. Stand firmly against the unyielding allure of the persuasive dawn. With the stone-written beliefs of your faith, you cannot fail. And if you have none, then you have not sought deep enough into the haunting core of your existence; for [...]

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Everyone loves gifts, but the gift in this story is quite unusual. Some will be disgusted by it, some will be confused by it, and some might understand and even appreciate it—maybe. Excerpt: As soon as I shouted into the vicinity of my home, the outlandish noises in the kitchen ceased. It was nothing more than the [...]

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The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: VERSE I Give of your heart To the solstice of your soul, When the goblins dance And sing in soothing seething. Leave for the dead All of withered wonders past While you tread through the black with wings of retribution. CHORUS Build a castle high On rock and broken bones; Shelter for the wise. Train the restless soil With faith and hallowed [...]

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I, like so many, wish that there were certain things, certain actions, never done in this world—thoughts never imagined, scenes never seen. What drives the human being to do the inhuman and become the monstrous father of immorality? How have those triggers of repulsive villainy even come to exist? It always comes back to the [...]

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Happy Halloween! (My pumpkin this year) Listen to the greeting for your chance at winning a horror DVD of your choice! Subscribe with iTunes

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The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Be generous with all endeavors of the heart. Though the transgressions of the damned extend beyond the reaches of remorse, its cavity of fruitful gestures erases all mortiferous debt. Ask and be given, even if the dense poltergeists of decay do not have the eyes to see the [...]

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Our recent years have held many breakthroughs and revelations in knowledge. Yet, like the ever-expanding universe, the more pieces discovered reveal a greater number of pieces undiscovered—and beyond that, unexplainable. With the consumption of the further reaches of knowledge has come magnificent technologies and blessed cures, but the uncharted territories beyond will always lie just [...]

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The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Be brave with all endeavors of the heart. It is your guide into the unknown and your guardian amongst the eminent. Only but its voice of unceasing song can cradle the lurid dissonance of discord. When the graves are emptied and the tombs evacuated, one resting place finds the [...]

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Here it is, the first Dark Verse episode! In this story I put a twist on the norm. We often get caught categorizing something as good or evil just by how it is described. But, if we look at life with various perspectives, then we might find out that we have been basing our beliefs [...]

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