Table of Contents: "Down a Rabbit Hole" by Dawn Debraal - 03:58, "The Rite of Spring" by Mawr Gorshin - 12:34, "The Osterrad" by Nora B. Peevy - 32:53, "The Leveretian" by C. Charles Knight - 39:05, "Easter of Eden" by JC Macek III - 52:26

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A special "thank you" to Joshua Adam Robertson for donating a music track!

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Author Bios:

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, a stray cat and a rescued dog. She has published over 700 short stories, drabbles, and poems in online ezines and anthologies. She tends to lean toward the horror genre because it makes her life seem so much better! Falling Star Magazine nominated Dawn for the 2019 Pushcart Award; she was Runner-up in the 2022 Horror Story Competition, two-time Author of the Month, nominated 2020, 2022, 2023 Author of the Year and received Contributor of the Year 2023 Spillwords Magazine.

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Mawr Gorshin was born Martin Gross in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, in 1969. He moved to Taiwan ROC in the summer of 1996, and has lived there ever since, working as a teacher of English as a second language.

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Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human’s body. Please send help or tuna. She is an Olympic champion sleeper and toils away for JournalStone/ Trepidatio Publishing as a submission reader, a reviewer for Hellnotes, and reads scripts for The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Ms. Peevy recently took the position writing nonfiction articles for The Weird Wide Web. She also is a syndicate author for Thrill Ride eZine and has taken up freelance editing as well as editing for Unveiling Nightmares. Her quirky tales are published by Eighth Tower Press, Carnage Press, The Sudden Fictions Podcast, Unveiling Nightmares, and other places. For the Sake of Brigid, her first novelette just came out in May of 2024 and her first novel, Flesh-eating Turtles!!!, is forthcoming.

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C. Charles Knight is a horror author who has published short stories in magazines and anthologies. He has stories being featured in several upcoming anthologies, his novella, "Breathe," is being published in September, and his collection of short stories is planned to go to press in early 2026. He is working on a number of stories including a new novella and novel. To find his work and updates on what he is working on, visit www.theknightwriter.com or on socials @ccharlesknight.

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J.C. Maçek III is the author of the hit true crime novel The Black Dahlia (2024) and the producer of the 2018 film [CARGO], starring Ron Thompson of American Pop fame, as well as the author of the film’s tie-in novel. His other novels include The Antagonist and Seven Days to Die. He is the curator and editor of Symptom of the Universe: A Horror Tribute to Black Sabbath, an anthology of short stories and novellas inspired by the music and lyrics of every era of Black Sabbath. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in Weird Fiction Quarterly, Sleeve of Hearts, The Devil’s Playground, Morsus Vitae, The Beauty in Darkness and many more anthologies and periodicals. He resides in Southern California with his wife and family and a veritable zoo of pets.