Surprise! Molly has a book coming out. And Jane has a conundrum. In this bonus episode, you can listen to a sneak peek of Molly’s forthcoming short story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, catch up with Jane, and stick around for an extra treat. It’s a one-off smorgasbord, baby! Get it while it’s hot!
Preorder The Sea Gives Up the Dead from Red Hen, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or your local independent bookstore!
From the talented Bram Stoker, the award-nominated writer of epic science-fiction drama The Pilgrimage Saga, and the producer of The PrickwillowPapers, Starstrider Productions presents…
DRACULA: 2004
The year is 2004. Flip-phones are in vogue, MySpace has just been launched, and Britney Spears’ Toxic is top of the charts. And Castle Dracula is about to receive a young guest for dinner…
Armed with only his dictaphone, newly-minted solicitor Jonathan Harker has taken the Eurostar out of Britain and travelled to the depths of Romania, where phone service and peace of mind have become a thing of the past. But Jonathan isn’t the only one in the toils: he’s just unwittingly given a bloodsucking monster unfettered access to London’s teeming millions, and he, his friends and Mina, the love of his life, are in grave danger.
A found-footage extravaganza, Dracula: 2004 dares to ask what happens when you combine vampires and dial-up internet. Join Jonathan as he survives the work trip from hell; gossip with Mina and Lucy over Lucy’s three suitors; and meet the eccentric Van Helsing and her vampire-hunting armoury. This is a new millennium, a new age of technology, and a version of Dracula that you have never experienced before.
Says she is bringing "no animals" into London whilst carrying her birds in plain sight (I like to think this is because she considers them friends rather than animals)
Shushes an injured man from groaning because she doesn't want him to wake her birds
Only comments on the big windows in her room to say that they make her birds "happy - or possibly sad"
Lists the fact that she owns two birds immediately after the details of her immediate family when giving facts about herself (even though Fleet already knows about the birds in question)
Doesn't want Fleet to go too near her birds because they don't know him
Expresses concern for her birds when armed guards are advancing on her apartment
Sometimes takes her birds up to the roof to give them a chance to fly about, and is shocked and appalled at the suggestion that they wouldn't come back
Carries packets of birdseed in her satchel when out-and-about on work business.
Gets these packets taken off her at the entrance to the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, but soon purchases three more packets of birdseed from within the Gardens at some point in the midst of investigating a dangerous conspiracy.
Was given her birds as a birthday present.
Asks for a birdcage when told to request any artificial object. When asked to describe the birdcage she'd want, goes to great lengths to imagine a cage that would maximise the comfort and safety of the birds. (The cage should have perches that feel like branches, and the ability to move from sun to shade, and the ability to fight off attackers...)
Gets so caught up in this line of thinking that it spirals into wondering about whether she can really provide the best life for her birds, and then into questioning her own desires for freedom, comfort, and/or purpose.
Is able to throw small objects with impressive accuracy of aim because her birds absolutely love to catch seeds out of the air. Acts as though the former of these facts automatically follows from the latter.
HP Lovecraft: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the story of the pickman's model
Lovecraft: what if there was a painting so scary
Lovecraft: like it was so scary
Lovecraft: like SO scary
Lovecraft: so there's this painting that's SO scary you can't look at it
Barker: what happens if you look at it
Barker: do you go insane
Lovecraft:
Lovecraft: yeah you go insane
Barker: damn howard really going outside your wheelhouse tonight
Poe: clive don't start
Lovecraft: so this painting is so scary that you can't even look at it
King: wow! imagine if there was a painting like that!
Stephen Gammell:
Garrett Cook: a scary painting huh? i got a twist on that
Cook: what if a picture was scary
Cook: because it was drawn with haunted chalk?
Lovecraft:
Cook: just think about it for a minute
Lovecraft: oh yeah that's good
Cook: like, chalk cursed by the soul of a debauched libertine
Lovecraft: oh no i don't like that
Barker: wait wait i want to hear more about that
Lovecraft: but clive
Barker: shut up howard
Barker: adults are talking
Lovecraft: no guys you don't understand
Lovecraft: the reason that the painting is so scary
Lovecraft: is it's a painting of, like, a scary dog
Dean Koontz: i wouldn't be scared of a dog
Lovecraft: oh you'd be scared of this dog, dean
Lovecraft: it's real scary
Lovecraft: but the scariest thing about this scary dog
Lovecraft: is
Lovecraft: wait for it
Lovecraft: the scary dog is real
Koontz: what!
Lovecraft: it turns out pickman drew it from life!
Lovecraft: from his model!
Lovecraft: pickman's model!
Koontz: gosh howard
Koontz: i think that's just great!
Koontz: seeing a picture of a dog is great
Koontz: but then finding out that the dog is real and you can go see the real dog
Koontz: that's even better!
Lovecraft: dean you don't understand!
Lovecraft: the dog is evil!
Koontz: i don't believe that
Koontz: there are no bad dogs
Happy Morland P.I. Season 2 premiere day! If you're here because you loved Murray Mysteries, consider checking out Morland P.I.! It's just as literary, just as queer and just as full of amazing voice acting talent!
S3 SPOILERS!!! LOOK AWAY! SERIOUSLY! Okay, we warned you.
Our final Q&A episode is going to be minutely delayed--just by a day or so, we hope--so in the meantime feast your eyes on this clip from the Zoom video recording we did not ask for, but got anyway!
Wherever you listen to podcasts, the series finale. ❤️🔥
**Content warnings: grief, memory loss, references to drug use**
Q&A survey (closes April 28, 2023): https://forms.gle/jtg7Z1MPvNn35uf68
Voice credits: Jackie Hedeman was the voice of Sophie Green. Molly Olguín was Jane Gonzalez. Colin Killick was Agent Blanc, Harlan Guthrie was the voice of Agent Mason, and Qia Seed was Anders Li. Lena Garcia was Carla de Luca and Maganda Marie was the voice of Isabel Rowley. Elinor Lopez was beautifully portrayed by our own Jackie Andrews.
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The TEAm sings a song, Mahira slings a sword, and Sol solves a situation.
Listen to Season 3, Episode 11 of VALENCE now wherever you get your podcasts.
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Credits:
VALENCE was created by Wil Williams. This episode was written by Katie Youmans, and edited and sound designed by Wil Williams. This episode was directed by Anne Baird and Katie Youmans, transcribed by Katie Youmans, and produced by Anne Baird. The VALENCE Season 3 theme was composed by Travis Reaves.