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Nov 2019
17m 57s

Episode 2: The Schoolhouse: Barlo Kentuc...

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Ten year old Sarah Avery continues to deal with the fallout of the elders of Barlo's choices. A promise is made.


CW: Frank discussion of historical racism, explicit gore, death by industrial disaster, desecration of dead bodies, reanimated dead, discovery of a body dead by hanging, endangerment of a child by monsters, bear attack with animal sounds.


Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastard


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