My insomnia has been flaring-up recently and this recording hasn't aided in my quest for slumber. I forgot just how unsettling this story is.
I've been very pleased with the stories that Pseudopod has been airing as of late, and some of them have been completely excellent and hit the top of the bar. This is definitely one of them.
I have to admit that I wasn't the fastest catching on at first to the fact that the static was intentional in this episode. It took a bit to sink in. Anyway, great job on the vocal work. And, I have to confess, I don't know who the slush reader is for Pseudopod, but that person has been gathering some gems.
I don't know what to say about this episode that hasn't been said before, but there's a great sense of progression here from the mundane to the terrifying, told in simple steps. And it's very well constructed, and that's part of its brilliance to me. It's hard to point out the exact moment that the story steps out onto the void. Certainly, step 8 (I believe) was the breaking point, but the story still seems grounded past that point as a natural progression of what came before, and combining that with the foreshadowing in steps 1-7 really blurs the the boundaries quite well.
A very well constructed story, read with great skill and with top-notch production values. This is already going to be on my shortlist for voting for year's best.