Flash: The Tomb

[Bdoomed]

Flash: The Tomb

By Annie Abbondante

Read by Ben Phillips

To see the insides of you, they will have to pull you apart. The doctor is really nothing more than a soft-fingered explorer who knows his way around the black lumps and brown chunks of the human anatomy; he knows which juices squish out from where and why. He doesn’t know what a gift it is to hold your purple heart in his latex hands.


Listen to this Pseudopod Flash.

[eytanz]

This was so hilariously awful that when I was listening to it - walking down 6th avenue on the way to my office in the morning - people actually stopped to look at me because I was giggling. I still haven't decided if this was meant to be parody or not, though I find it very difficult to believe "I want to be the stuffing in your turkey" was written with a straight face.

[Alasdair5000]

This was okay, just not much more.  Body horror done right is fun.  Obsessive love done right is fun.  Body horror and obsessive love can be fun but this was way too mannered for me.  That being said whilst 'Your nakedness is as big as an opera' is one of the worst lines I've heard this year 'You are art, not pornography' is one of the best.

[oddpod]

liked it, quiet alot
but then i am a bit a sucker for the swift kick to the nadgers only flash fiction can provide

[clichekiller]

I couldn't listen past the soup ladle line.  I don't think I'll be able to look at much less east soup for a while.  Heck I may just throw my ladle out when I get home.  What's with all the gore and gross factor lately. 

[Jim]

Once again I'm reminded of what Stephen King once wrote, that his first aim is to terrify, and, failing to terrify, he'll aim to horrify, and, failing to horrify, he'll just go for the gross-out.

This story was so gross that it was nearly comical, like a Troma movie.

[oddpod]

  What's with all the gore and gross factor lately. 

its a horror podcast,

[clichekiller]

  What's with all the gore and gross factor lately. 

its a horror podcast,

Take a look at Edgar Allen Poe to find plenty of horror without gore.  Many of his stories still hold up well considering their age.  It's the difference between a horror movie and a slasher flick; I prefer the former not so much the latter.  So "it's a horror podcast," doesn't quite answer my question. 

[DKT]

What was the last gory story run before this one?  The most recent one I can think of is Bliss, which was 4-5 episodes ago.  I don't mind gore but I like other kinds of horror (and if it was gore every week, I'd probably get tired of it).  Overall, I feel like Pseudopod's doing a great job running a wide variety of it. 

[clichekiller]

Some Things Don't Wash Off was only a couple of episodes ago.  There have been a few others as well.  I'm not usually this squeamish, I've seen Saw and such, but this flash piece really got to me.  I guess maybe because I was in the Fire Dept and drove an ambulance and that kind of imagery brings back a lot of memories for me.  Still I prefer less splatter usually in my horror.

It would be cool if, like Escape Pod, you guys provided a rating system.  I understand though that this would be extra work and I have no problem turning it off if I don't like it so you won't lose a listener over it.  In other words, move along nothing to see here    

[DKT]

Some Things Don't Wash Off was only a couple of episodes ago.  There have been a few others as well.

That's true, although for some reason that one didn't hit me as gory.  All this reality TV I'm watching must be jading me

[oddpod]

  What's with all the gore and gross factor lately. 

its a horror podcast,

"it's a horror podcast," doesn't quite answer my question. 

ok , but i think this epesode is as mutch a love story as a slasher flick

[clichekiller]

  What's with all the gore and gross factor lately. 

its a horror podcast,

"it's a horror podcast," doesn't quite answer my question. 

ok , but i think this epesode is as mutch a love story as a slasher flick

That may be true but in this case, unlike Some Things, I couldn't get past the gore to the actual story elements.  All well, can't like em all, keep up the good work gang.

[Kaa]

This one just didn't engage me like most of the others. I listened to it in the car, as usual, and all I could think of while listening to it was "soup ladle?" and "stuffing in your turkey?"  "Did he actually say...?"  So, yeah.

I have no idea what it was actually about, because it just didn't "grab" me, and it was really kind of gross and disgusting.  So, eh, this one was a miss, but they've been mostly hits for me so far, so keep it up!

[Unblinking]

I listened to this last week some time and am just getting to the comment thread now.  Most stories I can remember the gist of for a long time after, given just a small blurb from it, but this one must not have left much of an impression on me.  It sounds familiar, but I have no real feelings of like or dislike for it.

[Millenium_King]

This one did nothing for me.  It was a description of an autopsy in the 2nd person crowded with clumsy metaphors ("I will be the stuffing of your turkey" *groan*).  There was no story here.