Escape Artists
PseudoPod => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Bdoomed on June 23, 2018, 02:59:47 AM
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PseudoPod 599: The Boy with the Glass Eyes (http://pseudopod.org/2018/06/15/pseudopod-599-the-boy-with-the-glass-eyes/)
by J.L. Flannery (http://pseudopod.org/people/j-l-flannery/)
Narrated by Paul S. Jenkins (http://pseudopod.org/people/paul-s-jenkins/)
Hosted by Alasdair Stuart (http://pseudopod.org/people/alasdair-stuart/)
PseudoPod 599: The Boy with the Glass Eyes is a PseudoPod original.
My son arrived in a brown cardboard package, no bigger than a shoebox.
I lifted the lid to see him lying there flat on his back, eyes closed, as though he were asleep.
‘Go on,’ my Boss said, ‘lift him up.’
Nervously, I lifted him up out of the box and cradled him in my arms. His skin was velvet. His smell; pure talcum powder. I looked down at his sleeping face and put on a smile, pretending the nausea that was rising in my throat didn’t exist.
Listen to this week's PseudoPod. (http://media.libsyn.com/media/pseudopod/Pseudo599_TheBoyWithTheGlassEyes.mp3)
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I'm unsure how exactly it ended, but the dread was in every word from the beginning. When it apparently learned to walk (SHIVERING) I definitely got Talky Tina from the Twilight Zone flashbacks.
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Eeeek.
That is all.
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Having spent time in Japan, the context built around this story was wonderfully accurate and creepy.
During Alasdair's end comments, I cannot make what movie he quoted. ???
The quote was "You know what the cruelest thing you can do to someone you've walked into a room is? Press their face to the window."
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During Alasdair's end comments, I cannot make what movie he quoted. ???
The quote was "You know what the cruelest thing you can do to someone you've walked into a room is? Press their face to the window."
It's from the 2016 movie 'Morgan'.