Silverfish - EXCLUSIVE

98.6 - Silverfish A high schooler caught in the throes of first love expects to follow the family tradition: feeding discarded papers to the silverfish within her home, taking away painful memories and giving people a fresh start. But when she turns to the silverfish to mend her broken heart, she’s forced to reckon with the consequences—and her mother. Written by Felicity Helfand Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://instagram.com/efventu) Produced by Chidozie Uzochukwu (www.x.com/studio55audios) With music by Nul Tiel Records (https://nultielrecords.com) And Dark Fantasy Studio (http://darkfantasystudio.com/) And Kosta T (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kosta_T) And North Without End (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/north-without-end/) And Tim Kulig (https://timkulig.com/) And Ketsa (https://ketsa.uk/) And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/) And sound effects provided by Freesound.org The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/) A quick thanks to our community managers, Jasmine Arch, Joshua Boucher, and his eyeless ones Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty And Joshua Boucher for helping with our submission reading. And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon. Felicity Helfand is a freelance literary editor and writer in Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in, among others, Broadsided Press, Venice Living Magazine, and The Mill. When not writing she enjoys journaling, cozy mysteries, and too many tv shows. Erika Ventura is an artist, mother, bilingual narrator, and a husbandry technician. How does she manage it all? No idea, but her artwork can be seen on Instagram (@efventu) or you can visit her artist page www.facebook.com/BioArtsy Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/ Support the show, get audiobooks, and more at https://www.patreon.com/hawkandcleaver Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at https://theotherstories.net/community/ Leave a voicemail or get in touch at https://theotherstories.net/submissions Check out our writing courses at https://theotherstories.net/courses/ Grab some merch at https://gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.