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Jun 2021
36m 34s

Episode 28: Paradise Lost

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Miss Virginia heads west while young Tommy stays behind as Jack’s right hand man and discovers that things are almost never what they seem.


CW: Animal carcass eaten by a monster, geese.


Written by Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” by Those Poor Bastards


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