Moonlight Over a Ruined Village

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Moonlight Over a Ruined Village is a Weird Fiction anthology podcast dedicated to weird and scary stories. These stories deal with people caught in the grasp of social decay and are based on accounts collected from the residents of a suburban village that has fallen into a state of ruin. Though the names of the people and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved in these events, the events could happen anywhere at any time. These tales deal with dark themes and disturbing content that some listeners may find troubling. In addition, there is a fair bit or profanity, so listener discretion is advised.

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  1. Episode 1

    Moonlight Over a Scavenging Bird

    For tonight’s tale, we join a doomed soul that has been locked away. He was first removed from society, and then from all sources of light. His sanity did not survive. The years he spent in his perpetually darkened cell could not be counted by his broken mind. He clawed at unforgiving walls and pulled at iron bars until his body failed him. He devoted his wretched life to vain attempts at escaping that darkness, and he failed every time. Soon the denizens of the darkness found him and dined on his flesh and blood. Before long, he was forced into a sickening communion with these horrible creatures.             Satisfied with his ruined state, his captors pulled him from his cell, threw him into the back of a vehicle, and dumped him onto a dirt road in the middle of a ruined village. But it is not just any ruined village. It is the very village from which he was abducted. In fact, it is the very village he played a role in ruining. Emboldened by the familiarity of the road beneath his feet, he sets out to reclaim his village.             Those plans are cut short by the arrival of two goons known as them boys. They inform the prisoner that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated in this village. In fact, they are there to see to it that he accepts the changes all of them have been through. The prisoner then has to acknowledge the horrific changes he was forced to undergo in the darkness.               This tale is dark and deals with imprisonment, supernatural elements, body horror, mistrust in government institutions, and antisocial behavior. Moreover, it contains profanity and references to past stories. Listener discretion is advised.

    54 min

  2. Episode 2

    Moonlight Over a Retching Demon

    Tonight’s tale begins in a hole, dug deep into the earth by a creature that wants nothing to do with the world. The hole is merely a space in the earth for him to occupy until he passes from this world. For that is all this creature wants. He seeks oblivion.             Yet the outer world would still claim this creature’s time and labor. The creature is awakened from his wretched slumber by merciless lights that flash in his eyes and a thunderous pounding in his skull. So the creature answers the phone he had been sleeping on, and discovers he is late for work.             Thrust back into the world he wanted to abandon, the ruined creature bathes in freezing waters and is subjected to the judging stares of an outraged class of students. This causes him to violently retch in the river, which just makes it worse. He then runs through the streets and endures the outright hostility of the types of jackasses who honk their horns at pedestrians. He finally arrives at his job, where things start to go really bad for him.             It is hard to know what finally broke him. It could have been the pedantic middle manager drunk with the authority granted to him by elites who couldn’t care less about him. It could have been the sniveling customers who tried to make him share the burden of their idiocy. Although it was more than likely his altered physical state from his time being held as a prisoner of the cult of the spider. Whatever it was, our hero looked the world in the face and declared that he would rather not.             So he retreats to the darkness. But there, he finds he is not alone. In fact, his decision to abandon humanity was not entirely his own.  Our retching demon soon learns that he has been expected by an old evil from his past. This tale involves one guy retching more than is entirely necessary. It also contains references to antisocial behavior, body horror, vampirism, occult themes, violence, bureaucracy, and profanity. Listener discretion is advised.

    45 min

  3. Episode 3

    Moonlight Over the Government Trying to Help

    For tonight’s tale, we find the ruined village in a precarious situation. The hapless inmates of the village have lived their lives in fear for too long. Mostly, they fear stepping in things that have no business being out in public. Too many dogs have walked amidst the spider azalea and have never returned.  The police have cowered in fear while the lawless elements have ruled over the village for too long. As a result, the powers that be have decided to put an end to this situation. Tonight is the night that the government tries to help.             This is done by forming at least one committee that implements multiple dynamic procedures to eventually arrive at the proactive decision to outsource it to someone else. Though that ‘it’ remains undefined, they have enlisted the aid of the hapless reporter who has written about the ruined village before. She braved the drunken chaos of the River Road after dark and survived to get to her bus stop. She endured the unbridled idiocy of the Cult of the Spider and its army of creepy weirdos rolling around in the dirt. She has seen it all, she has documented her experiences, and she has presented her findings to the public. In addition to bringing great shame to her parents, she has gained the attention of the government. They aim to call upon her expertise as they make their fumbling attempts to control the chaos that runs through the village.             But there is darkness at the heart of this village that the reporter didn’t dare to write about. She didn’t mention the true living horror that inspired the ridiculous legends of the village. She didn’t mention the terrified dog that pleaded to her for help before it was eaten alive. But most importantly, she didn’t mention the snake woman who lurked in her shadow every time she ventured close to that village. As the newly minted public servant returns to the ruined village, she prepares herself for her inevitable encounter with the snake woman who is ever lurking in the shadow she casts beneath the moon that shines over that ruined village.             This tale contains multiple references to government officials making flagrant attempts to help the people around them. It also contains references to cult activities, body horror, alcohol abuse, supernatural horror, and the willful and flagrant perpetuation of bureaucracy. Moreover, it contains more profanity than is necessary. Listener discretion is advised.

    55 min
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Moonlight Over a Ruined Village is a Weird Fiction anthology podcast dedicated to weird and scary stories. These stories deal with people caught in the grasp of social decay and are based on accounts collected from the residents of a suburban village that has fallen into a state of ruin. Though the names of the people and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved in these events, the events could happen anywhere at any time. These tales deal with dark themes and disturbing content that some listeners may find troubling. In addition, there is a fair bit or profanity, so listener discretion is advised.

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