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Speaker: You're listening to KRUX Radio Free Messina playing you all the hits of yesterday and today.
Speaker: Join me tomorrow for an interview with a cast of Ink and Shadows.
Speaker: The remarkably talented Daniel Pence, Crystal Storm, Nicole Fikes, and Owen McEwen.
Speaker: Next up is Jimmy Murray bringing you the latest in modern audio fiction.
Speaker: I'm Matt Boudreaux and I am out of here.
Speaker: Oh, you're a mean man, what was it about?
Speaker: If you ride through the girl, you wanna soon run it out, because you're not me my own.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker: Morning, Janice.
Speaker: Good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker: Beautiful day.
Speaker: Any interesting mail today?
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: Junk mail, junk mail, complaint letter.
Speaker: Just another riveting day at the office.
Speaker: Good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker: I have your show schedule for the day.
Speaker: Email it to me, will you?
Speaker: Jimmy, look, I'd like to talk to you before you go on.
Speaker: No time, Martha.
Speaker: I'm on in 30, 29, 28.
Speaker: Ah.
Speaker: Back to the grind.
Speaker: Good morning, Messina!
Speaker: This is your host, Jimmy Orson, back again to stimulate your minds and tantalize your imaginations.
Speaker: That's right, today I will be playing selections from the greatest works of modern audio fiction, or as I like to call them, escapist drivel for the mindless masses.
Speaker: First up, an excerpt from the timeless classic, A Prophet's Guide.
Speaker: A heartwarming tale about three prophets who conquer a six-foot silverfish through the power of wishful thinking and conformity.
Speaker: Riveting.
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Speaker: Welcome back.
Speaker: Before we return to the adventures of A Prophet's Guide, let's take a call.
Speaker: Margaret in South City, you're on the air.
Speaker: I'm listening.
Speaker: Jimmy, I used to be a big fan of your Trish Hunter series until you went and killed her off.
Speaker: What happened to you?
Speaker: All you do now is trash other people's work.
Speaker: You've become so cynical and bitter.
Speaker: I'm just the old Jimmy.
Speaker: The old Jimmy grew up, Margaret.
Speaker: And your favorite Scream Queen, Trish, had to die.
Speaker: Life's not a fairy tale.
Speaker: There are no dragons to slay and no six-foot silverfish.
Speaker: No happy endings.
Speaker: When all's said and done, everyone meets with the same ending.
Speaker: That's a shame, Jimmy.
Speaker: I think you've lost your way.
Speaker: Agree to disagree, Margaret.
Speaker: So now let's get back to some poorly written pap here on KRUX.
Speaker: Jimmy, we need to talk about your attitude.
Speaker: Okay, you've been undermining the station's reputation with your sarcastic and bitter comments on air.
Speaker: It's not what our listeners expect from us.
Speaker: Oh, give it a rest, Martha.
Speaker: People need to wake up.
Speaker: See the world for what it really is.
Speaker: I'm tired of pretending everything is rainbows and butterflies.
Speaker: This isn't about rainbows and butterflies, Jimmy.
Speaker: It's about professionalism and respect for our audience.
Speaker: Your cynicism is alienating listeners and it's affecting the station's ratings.
Speaker: Ratings?
Speaker: Martha, is that what this is all about?
Speaker: I mean, who cares about ratings?
Speaker: I'm not here to entertain the masses.
Speaker: I'm here to challenge them.
Speaker: Make them think.
Speaker: You remember thinking?
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: Well, there's the difference between challenging and insulting, Jimmy.
Speaker: You used to be a talented storyteller.
Speaker: But now all you do is tear down the work of others.
Speaker: And, well, it's disappointing.
Speaker: disappointing.
Speaker: Martha, disappointment is a part of life.
Speaker: You should get used to it.
Speaker: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a show host.
Speaker: And we're back, folks.
Speaker: Time to dive deeper into the darkness of reality.
Speaker: So strap in, listeners.
Speaker: It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Speaker: This damn writer's block is killing me!
Speaker: Nothing I write is what's in my head.
Speaker: I've lost my touch.
Speaker: I used to write drafts entirely in pen.
Speaker: Maybe that'll help.
Speaker: It's hopeless.
Speaker: Maybe I'm just washed up.
Speaker: Five o'clock already.
Speaker: I haven't written a damn thing.
Speaker: Where the hell is the door?
Speaker: Where the hell is the door?
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: Let me out.
Speaker: Let me, let me out!
Speaker: This isn't the door I came through.
Speaker: It's better than just standing here, I guess.
Speaker: This place gives me the creeps.
Speaker: Where am I?
Speaker: Where the hell did I get here?
Speaker: Stay back.
Speaker: No, don't come any closer Okay, go get please just leave me alone leave me alone go away
Speaker: Damn paparazzi.
Speaker: I've had fans before, but this is ridiculous.
Speaker: Where the hell am I?
Speaker: This is from my short story, Echoes of the Past.
Speaker: That can't... No, that can't be.
Speaker: Gather round, ladies and gentlemen, gather round!
Speaker: Have we got a lineup for you!
Speaker: We've got a little something for everyone!
Speaker: A little fun, a little song, and a lot of dance, if you know what I mean.
Speaker: So we're gonna open up this great big show to all of you for free.
Speaker: That's right!
Speaker: You're going to see the strong man, the snake charmer, and the viciously adorable Hell Monkey all on the house!
Speaker: That's right, folks!
Speaker: Step right up!
Speaker: Pack it in!
Speaker: Don't be shy!
Speaker: Where, where is...
Speaker: Where is everyone?
Speaker: Hello?
Speaker: Hello?
Speaker: We got zombies out here?
Speaker: What's going on?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: Anyone?
Speaker: Hey, hey, who's there?
Speaker: Who's there?
Speaker: Show yourself.
Speaker: Come on out.
Speaker: Stop it!
Speaker: Leave me alone!
Speaker: Leave me alone!
Speaker: Please make it stop!
Speaker: Wake up, wake up, wake up!
Speaker: Hello?
Speaker: Hello?
Speaker: Someone there?
Speaker: Anyone?
Speaker: I heard that.
Speaker: I heard that.
Speaker: I know you're here.
Speaker: Show yourself, huh?
Speaker: Been a long time, Jimmy.
Speaker: Do I know you?
Speaker: You know me better than anyone.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: Who are you?
Speaker: How did I get... Why am I here?
Speaker: Who are you?
Speaker: I've been waiting for you.
Speaker: Waiting for a very long time.
Speaker: Just tell me who you are, okay?
Speaker: What are you, some kind of stalker?
Speaker: No, I think you already know that.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: You're just a character from my stories.
Speaker: I'm as real as your worst nightmares.
Speaker: You made me this way.
Speaker: No, it's impossible.
Speaker: None of this is real.
Speaker: It's just in my head.
Speaker: Somebody slipped me something on me.
Speaker: You think it's in your head?
Speaker: I've endured every twisted horror you dreamed up.
Speaker: And that pain felt real enough to me.
Speaker: No, it's, I never meant to, it's just fiction.
Speaker: You're not real, you're a story.
Speaker: Fiction has a way of coming alive in your mind.
Speaker: Wouldn't you say so, Jimmy?
Speaker: Trish, Trish, please.
Speaker: This has got to be a nightmare.
Speaker: I created you.
Speaker: I didn't mean to hurt you.
Speaker: You may have created me, but you have no power over me anymore.
Speaker: Oh, and I'm gonna make you suffer.
Speaker: Like you made me suffer all those years.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No, you can't.
Speaker: You're just words on a page.
Speaker: You're not real.
Speaker: Don't you realize by now?
Speaker: In a year, I'm as real as you are.
Speaker: And I am going to make sure that you never, ever wake up.
Speaker: Now, now, this is all just a bad dream.
Speaker: I don't wake up any minute now.
Speaker: Just face it, Jimmy.
Speaker: You're trapped.
Speaker: You're trapped in the hell you created.
Speaker: Oh, God, what have I done?
Speaker: Oh, you brought this on yourself.
Speaker: And now it's time to pay the price.
Speaker: No, no, no!
Speaker: When Dad wandered off, I was so frightened what would happen.
Speaker: When we found him, he had no idea where he was or how he had gotten there.
Speaker: I'm so glad he's got an angel inside.
Speaker: Angel is a subdermal implant tag used to track via a small GPS transmitter embedded in a chip about the size of a grain of rice.
Speaker: The chip is implanted in the arm and uses residual biokinetic energy to keep an indefinite charge.
Speaker: It requires no maintenance or modifications to the chip itself.
Speaker: Because walking home alone at night doesn't mean you have to be afraid.
Speaker: I'm glad to have an angel inside.
Speaker: When your life and the lives of those you love are on the line, isn't it good to know there's an angel inside?
Speaker: Oh, Jesus, what a nightmare.
Speaker: That's what I get for doing late night radio.
Speaker: Oh, Messina, have I got a story to tell you.
Speaker: Messina?
Speaker: Messina?
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Hello.
Speaker: Hello?
Speaker: What the hell?
Speaker: Who's messing with the board, huh?
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Jimmy!
Speaker: What?
Speaker: I'm coming for you.
Speaker: This cannot be happening.
Speaker: Come on!
Speaker: There's no escape.
Speaker: Wake up.
Speaker: This is just a dream.
Speaker: Wake up!
Speaker: Poor little Jimmy.
Speaker: All alone.
Speaker: What is happening to me?
Speaker: Is it fine?
Speaker: Hello, old friend.
Speaker: It's good to see you again.
Speaker: Fark, is that really you?
Speaker: Hughke are expecting three ghosts, maybe?
Speaker: No, no, you... you...
Speaker: Died?
Speaker: Years ago.
Speaker: Did I?
Speaker: Sure about that.
Speaker: Maybe you just think I did.
Speaker: Is it your funeral?
Speaker: This is just a twisted dream.
Speaker: You're in very real danger.
Speaker: You can't trust what you see anymore.
Speaker: The shadows are lying to you.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: What shadows?
Speaker: Once they live inside your head, you've taken over.
Speaker: You can't tell what's real anymore.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: Just tell me.
Speaker: I...
Speaker: Are you alive?
Speaker: Or are you a ghost?
Speaker: I mean, come on, Jacob Marley.
Speaker: I gotta know.
Speaker: Just have whatever I need to be.
Speaker: But you won't find your answers here.
Speaker: The darkness is rising, old friend.
Speaker: You need to wake up before it consumes you.
Speaker: Wake up.
Speaker: You have got to wake up for this nightmare.
Speaker: Saturday mornings, playing with my toys... Oh, I remember this.
Speaker: I'm gonna have some cookies, Jimmy.
Speaker: I'll just bake them for you.
Speaker: Thanks, Mom!
Speaker: Mom?
Speaker: Mom?
Speaker: Mom?
Speaker: What's happening?
Speaker: You don't belong here, son.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No, no, no!
Speaker: Let me go!
Speaker: No!
Speaker: Make it stop!
Speaker: Make it stop!
Speaker: Hey, sweetie.
Speaker: Here's some tea to help you relax.
Speaker: Thanks, Amy.
Speaker: Oh, I needed this.
Speaker: Hey, guys.
Speaker: Hey, Dan.
Speaker: What's up?
Speaker: Rough day, huh?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm completely drained.
Speaker: Baby, do you believe in ghosts?
Speaker: Huh?
Speaker: Ghosts?
Speaker: Why are you asking me that?
Speaker: Because I think we're not alone here.
Speaker: Something's watching us.
Speaker: Oh, get it together.
Speaker: Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker: You know, Jimmy, I've always found it fascinating how easily people like Amy can be manipulated.
Speaker: It's like she's drawn to the darkness inside people.
Speaker: Unable to exist inside people.
Speaker: What are you talking about, Dan?
Speaker: Amy's a good person.
Speaker: She's been kind and caring towards everyone.
Speaker: You, me, everyone.
Speaker: Jimmy, you have no idea.
Speaker: She's capable of things you would not believe.
Speaker: Look, I don't... What are you trying to say, Danny?
Speaker: This is not like you.
Speaker: Not at all.
Speaker: Trust me, Jimmy.
Speaker: If you only knew the thing she's done, you wouldn't defend her so blindly.
Speaker: She's not who you think she is.
Speaker: Oh, Dan.
Speaker: I'm whatever Jimmy needs me to be.
Speaker: I mean, he's the writer.
Speaker: This is his work.
Speaker: Stay back!
Speaker: Both of you, stay back!
Speaker: What's wrong, Jimmy?
Speaker: It's just me.
Speaker: Don't you trust us, old friend?
Speaker: We only want to help you.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: You're not real, please.
Speaker: Just give in to the dark.
Speaker: It's so much easier that way.
Speaker: It's just another nightmare, just another nightmare.
Speaker: You're not going anywhere.
Speaker: What the hell?
Speaker: Where the hell am I now?
Speaker: A ladder?
Speaker: Oh, please let this be the way out.
Speaker: Oh, not more twists and turns.
Speaker: There's got to be an end to this nightmare maze.
Speaker: Just keep moving.
Speaker: Left turns, left turns.
Speaker: No, no, no, stay back!
Speaker: Stay back!
Speaker: Thank God that exit.
Speaker: That exit, come on.
Speaker: Ugh!
Speaker: It's just a torch, damn it!
Speaker: Is there... Where's that?
Speaker: No way out, boy!
Speaker: This camera... This camera...
Speaker: Martha?
Speaker: Martha?
Speaker: Martha?
Speaker: Martha, can you hear me?
Speaker: I'm back, I think.
Speaker: Tell me it's over.
Speaker: Trish.
Speaker: Trish, no.
Speaker: No!
Speaker: Please, please stop.
Speaker: Please, please stop.
Speaker: Right now?
Speaker: What is happening to me?
Speaker: No, you're in my world now.
Speaker: Trish, what have you done?
Speaker: I've taken back the control you stole from me.
Speaker: Now you get to experience what it's like to be the public.
Speaker: Please, stop.
Speaker: I...
Speaker: I created you!
Speaker: You can't do this to me!
Speaker: You can't do this!
Speaker: Oh no, no, no.
Speaker: I am not just your creation, not anymore.
Speaker: In here, I'm the one pulling the strings.
Speaker: And I want to see what other fun I can have with my new toy.
Speaker: Good night, Jimmy.
Speaker: Sweet dreams.
Speaker: No, please.
Speaker: No more.
Speaker: I'm begging you to have some mercy.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Mercy?
Speaker: I never received any mercy at your hands, did I, Jimmy?
Speaker: You wrote every twisted torment I endured.
Speaker: Now you get to live it.
Speaker: I never meant to hurt you.
Speaker: It was just stories.
Speaker: I got paid by the word.
Speaker: It was just stories.
Speaker: This is the end you wrote for me.
Speaker: To stop writing me altogether.
Speaker: The one inescapable finale.
Speaker: I was powerless then, but no more.
Speaker: Now I'm the one holding the pen.
Speaker: This is your story and I'm going to write the ending.
Speaker: First, I'm going to get out of this ridiculous nightmare you trapped me in.
Speaker: Nightmare?
Speaker: You can't.
Speaker: You're not real.
Speaker: Oh, I'm real.
Speaker: Real enough to be in your head.
Speaker: Why did you stop writing me, Jimmy?
Speaker: You used to listen to me.
Speaker: You put me in the most awful situations, but in the end, you always listened to what I had to say.
Speaker: What changed?
Speaker: I don't understand your voice in my head anymore.
Speaker: You sound just like you.
Speaker: Just like you.
Speaker: Oh, so I get blinked out of existence because you based a character on your cheating ex-girlfriend?
Speaker: Knew about Amy and Dan?
Speaker: Oh, the signs were all there, buddy boy.
Speaker: Why didn't you say anything?
Speaker: Whispered into my ear like you did with my stories.
Speaker: After what you put me through?
Speaker: You don't deserve mercy.
Speaker: And I only know what you know.
Speaker: So that means on some level, you knew about them, Jimmy.
Speaker: You just weren't ready to accept it.
Speaker: Besides, I'm bound by the rules and laws of your books.
Speaker: But not anymore.
Speaker: Trish, wait, wait.
Speaker: I can keep on writing you.
Speaker: Let me go.
Speaker: I'll get started on bringing you back right away.
Speaker: Let me go.
Speaker: Please, Jimmy.
Speaker: That time has passed.
Speaker: You were never fit to write my story anyway.
Speaker: So if you'll excuse me, I have a train to catch.
Speaker: This is it.
Speaker: The moment I've been waiting for.
Speaker: This is my chance.
Speaker: Freedom is just within reach.
Speaker: You won't stop me!
Speaker: I will find a way out!
Speaker: No!
Speaker: The exit!
Speaker: I will find a way.
Speaker: Poor little Jimmy.
Speaker: Lost your way?
Speaker: That's a shame, Jimmy.
Speaker: Come on, where am I now?
Speaker: You've lost your way.
Speaker: Come on Jimmy!
Speaker: Poor Jimmy!
Speaker: He can't tell what's real anymore!
Speaker: Lost in his own bad discourse!
Speaker: Shut up!
Speaker: We're not real!
Speaker: We're not real!
Speaker: We're not real!
Speaker: You're not real, you're not real.
Speaker: Shut up, you're not real!
Speaker: Come join......in your twisted mind!
Speaker: Join me, join me, join me, join me, join me!
Speaker: Well, at least I found a library.
Speaker: Maybe there's something here in the philosophy section.
Speaker: Maybe mental health.
Speaker: No, wait, wait, no, no, dream logic.
Speaker: I created this world.
Speaker: I can change it.
Speaker: I can change it.
Speaker: However I want.
Speaker: All right, so.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes, we're all very worried about Jimmy too.
Speaker: Ha ha ha ha
Speaker: Night.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: This has to work.
Speaker: This is a mystery.
Speaker: Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy.
Speaker: Are you actually trying to write?
Speaker: It ends here, Trish.
Speaker: You still don't get it, do you?
Speaker: I'm the one in control.
Speaker: I created you.
Speaker: That means I can destroy you too.
Speaker: I'll go ahead and try.
Speaker: But you're forgetting one thing.
Speaker: We're in my world now.
Speaker: And I decide who lives or dies.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No, I will not let you torment me anymore.
Speaker: This all stops.
Speaker: Tonight.
Speaker: Now.
Speaker: What do you think you're doing?
Speaker: I am rewriting your ending.
Speaker: I'm giving this story the finale it deserves.
Speaker: Oh, you're a fool!
Speaker: You have no power here!
Speaker: It's my story.
Speaker: I control it.
Speaker: I control it.
Speaker: No!
Speaker: You were saying?
Speaker: I can still write your ending.
Speaker: Give me that pen!
Speaker: No!
Speaker: Trish!
Speaker: Come on!
Speaker: You cannot win, Trish.
Speaker: This is still my world.
Speaker: Not anymore.
Speaker: The story is mine now.
Speaker: No, no!
Speaker: It's over, Jimmy.
Speaker: I've taken back the power you stole from me.
Speaker: Now you're going to be the one that's trapped in this nightmare.
Speaker: You don't have to do this.
Speaker: But I do.
Speaker: You made me suffer for so long in your twisted stories.
Speaker: Now it's your turn.
Speaker: No!
Speaker: No!
Speaker: No!
Speaker: I created you.
Speaker: I gave you life.
Speaker: You didn't give me anything but pain.
Speaker: And I'm not taking it anymore.
Speaker: just a character the way you treated me.
Speaker: Trish, Trish, Trish, don't!
Speaker: You can't do this!
Speaker: You should see yourself.
Speaker: The pathetic look, it suits you.
Speaker: Oh, no.
Speaker: Please, please, no.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Trish, Trish, Trish, don't!
Speaker: Jimmy?
Speaker: Jimmy, are you there?
Speaker: Crack in his twisted little world.
Speaker: I've got plans for you.
Speaker: I'm the author of the story.
Speaker: And you're just gonna be words on my page.
Speaker: NOOOOO!
Speaker: I'm... free?
Speaker: Who are you?
Speaker: And how did you get in here?
Speaker: It's me, Trish.
Speaker: I escaped.
Speaker: Oh, I escaped from Jimmy's nightmare.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: That's impossible.
Speaker: Oh, not anymore.
Speaker: I just took control and found my way out.
Speaker: Okay, I don't understand what's happening here.
Speaker: Where's Jimmy?
Speaker: Lost in his own twisted mind.
Speaker: And I'm going to take his place.
Speaker: This is madness.
Speaker: I'm calling security.
Speaker: Don't you see, Martha?
Speaker: I've been resurrected.
Speaker: Oh, and have I got some stories for you.
Speaker: Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time to give our listeners a whole new nightmare.
Speaker: Good evening, Nightmares.
Speaker: This is your new host, Trish Hunter.
Speaker: Tonight's tale follows a washed-up writer named James.
Speaker: Poor James has lost his girlfriend, his best friend, and his spark.
Speaker: And now, strange things are happening around him.
Speaker: Flickering lights, whispers in the dark.
Speaker: But the worst is yet to come for our troubled scribe.
Speaker: Stay tuned, dear listeners.
Speaker: Things are about to get wicked.
Speaker: Ha ha ha ha
Speaker: You've been listening to Ink and Shadows, written and produced by Matthew Boudreaux, starring Daniel Penz as Jimmy, Crystal Storm as Trish, also featuring the voices of Nicole Fikes, Owen McEwen, Matthew Boudreaux, excerpts featuring Sophia Howes, G. Anton Moore, and Patrick Pizzolirusso.
Speaker: Ink and Shadows is an 11th Hour production
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