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Speaker 1: Hey, Sanny and Samantha. I'm welcome stuff I never told

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Speaker 1: you production of My Heart Radio, and we are back

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Speaker 1: with another edition of Sminty Fiction, which is something that

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Speaker 1: we do about once a month. I think we're going

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Speaker 1: to take a break for the rest of the year

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Speaker 1: because they are more time consuming for Christina. We just

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Speaker 1: wrapped up the three part the trilogy of Terminus, so

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Speaker 1: if you want to go check that out, they're all

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Speaker 1: out now. If you're someone who likes to binge, this

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Speaker 1: is just a creepy little one shot for Halloween, and

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Speaker 1: yeah it is. It's got these sound effects that Christina

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Speaker 1: puts in there and makes it amazing. I really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: writing this. It's you know that Samantha and I love

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Speaker 1: like a good kind of story. I'm trying to really

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Speaker 1: get into the Halloween mood right now, and this was

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Speaker 1: a fun one to write. I do have a big

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Speaker 1: caveat that I'm going to put at the end, but

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Speaker 1: you have to wait till the end to hear it.

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Speaker 1: But if you're listening to this when it comes out,

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Speaker 1: it is Halloween. So well, Halloween, Happy Halloween, and let's

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Speaker 1: get into this fiction. It was hard to pinpoint when

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Speaker 1: her life fell apart when she let things fall apart,

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Speaker 1: and the thing was by the time she realized it happened,

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Speaker 1: it was too late. How far back did she have

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Speaker 1: to go to find where things went wrong? Was it

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Speaker 1: a series of multiple bad decisions? Was it a culmination

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Speaker 1: of things outside of her control? The sensation of everything

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Speaker 1: being wrong seeped into her life slowly and then crashed

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Speaker 1: over her like a hurricane. As soon as she graduated college,

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Speaker 1: she moved out of her small hometown and into a

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Speaker 1: it somehow felt larger than anywhere else she'd ever lived.

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Speaker 1: It was hers to fill more room, to reinvent herself,

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Speaker 1: to try new things, to just exist without every single

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Speaker 1: person whispering about it. Anonymity, freedom from the expectations of

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Speaker 1: who she was projected onto her by others that trapped

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Speaker 1: her in an internal performance. At first, it was very liberating,

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Speaker 1: like removing an old, heavy, constricting coat, but she soon

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Speaker 1: that felt lighter and less effocating until the days it

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Speaker 1: didn't until the days, the proverbial coat didn't offer the

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Speaker 1: closing around her neck like a noose. To be a

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Speaker 1: informed her own opinion of herself was a weight that

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Speaker 1: grew increasingly heavier. Trying to make herself a home, or

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Speaker 1: more and more. While she couldn't know when things started

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Speaker 1: to go wrong, she didn't know when she started noticing things.

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Speaker 1: The first instance that stood out in her mind was

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Speaker 1: tired but grim, detached determination. She purchased a water filter

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Speaker 1: drinking that water. Without question. She contacted her landlord and

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Speaker 1: guessed nothing to worry about, nothing she couldn't handle. One day,

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Speaker 1: She couldn't stop herself from breathing it in. Her lungs

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Speaker 1: The air felt heavy and resulting silence sore, she pushed

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Speaker 1: Was this just something she didn't know about? Was this

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Speaker 1: was uncomfortably warm. The water collecting on her peeling towel

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Speaker 1: the whining, the banging, the hissing of the steam. Slowly,

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Speaker 1: She cleaned the floor, racing what had happened, but she

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Speaker 1: and the nights came earlier and earlier. The air was cool,

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Speaker 1: the changing leaves rustling against her windows like fingers, something

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Speaker 1: She studied the face staring back at her, wondering at

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Speaker 1: how she felt just as empty as the pumpkin, This

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Speaker 1: Her silence was loud in her ears. Her breath fogged

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Speaker 1: coated in dust and gross that looked like some sort

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Speaker 1: of roots, veins branching off in all directions. Small blue

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Speaker 1: mushrooms sprouted from the vents. Horrified, she slammed the door shut,

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Speaker 1: the wind sending leaves swirling around her. What if she'd

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Speaker 1: resolving to deal with it later. Everything would be better later,

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Speaker 1: It was not soon after that she started noticing the bugs.

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Speaker 1: Small cockroaches get her out of sight. Spiders gone as

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Speaker 1: soon as she saw them. Their numbers were enough to

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Speaker 1: The refrigerator stopped working, and all of her food rotted,

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Speaker 1: Blue mushrooms, just like those in her car, started to

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Speaker 1: She cleaned it up like everything else, covered it up

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Speaker 1: imagine the mushrooms sprouting in her lungs, an entire colony,

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Speaker 1: She stared at the pumpkin, rotting and home to new life,

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Speaker 1: and thought, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'll let it get

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Speaker 1: she thought, and then she didn't think anything anymore. And

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Speaker 1: I really hope you enjoyed it. I have to say

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Speaker 1: the caveat I brought up. This is not a cry

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Speaker 1: for help, I promise, but it is all based on

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Speaker 1: things that have happened in my apartments. Oh no, they

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Speaker 1: are exaggerated, hopefully obviously, but all of this comes from

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Speaker 1: something that did happen in my apartment. And I got

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Speaker 1: to thinking about how when you condense those things down,

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Speaker 1: it does sound like a haunting. It sounds like something

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Speaker 1: is a miss. And my mom was staying with me

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Speaker 1: last night, and it was funny how many times she'd

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Speaker 1: be like, is it supposed to do that? Or be

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Speaker 1: like that? And I just would shrugg and I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. I've been living here for ten years.

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