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Dec 2020
36m 33s

Episode 17: The Boy Who Could Not Die

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The ties that bind us to this world are usually fragile things, gossamer strands spun on the looms of great, great grandmamas that we will never meet until our thread is snipped clean. Cowboy held no such ties. These were no mere threads binding this precious boy together, but heavy chains forged from the stygian soil of death itself and tempered in the cold river of eternity.


CW: Occult ritual, prophecies of death.


Written by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

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

Outro music: "In the Pines" (traditional), performed by Keena Graham


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