My anxieties were not reflected in the other men. You had to be a little bit crazy to walk those beams. I recognized myself in many of them—my pre-fall self. Being a part of something important, that was all they wanted. That, and the money that proved their involvement. But Whitley… his relationship to the tower was unique. --Written by Jacob Duarte Spiel, and performed by Anthony Botelho. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People like me were lucky enough to live inside the fences. I, for example, was lucky enough to be born a slave. I know how that sounds... But in the world in which we lived a slave was just about the best thing you could hope to be. It meant you got to live among the angels. --Written by Alexander Saxton, and performed by Anthony Botelho. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob shook his head, sighing, wiping his face with his hands. “Well isn’t that just somethin’. Jesus Chris. Never even occurred to me they wouldn’t a told ya. What a crock a shit. It’s really not fair to you, even if you are some shitty downtown whiner.” He leaned forward. “I’m talkin about the feud, Owen. The feud.” “Excuse me?” He sighed, took a swig of coffee, settled in. --Written by Alexander Saxton, and performed by Anthony Botelho. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the sight of the great grey hog, the girls all squealed and rushed forward to rub her meaty flanks and pet her furrowed, piggy brow. All except Anne, who held back, feeling somehow suddenly embarrassed. Ill-at-ease. The memory of last night’s pork chops at the forefront of her mind. Slowly, the pig raised its heavy head and stared at her. Looked her directly in the eyes, with bitter intelligence. --Written by Alexander Saxton, and performed by Zoe Lee. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know? I never quite knew what to make of that. --Written by Alexander Saxton, Jacob Duarte Spiel, and Anthony Botelho. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She loved to get lost in those films. The colours, strange music, grainy texture of black-gloved hands pressing into smooth bare flesh. The bright, surreal flow of blood. She sat alone in her room with lights off and earbuds in, drinking in that other world. Feasting on it. That saturated, seventies otherland of vice and sin and madness, so unlike the grey little world she knew. --Written by Alexander Saxton. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"If we wait nobody’ll ever catch him, what with all his army training. The Mountie station is two days ride in the other direction. By then the tracks will be gone. There’s no choice. We’ve got to run him down.” And as he said it, I couldn’t help but notice a whisper of excitement in his voice. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“There are ways of making this more interesting, you know.” He licked dry lips. “Go on.” “You’re not supposed to bet on the games. You can get banned. But everyone does." --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dozens of mounds erected to the dead: all slightly pointed, all silent under the low thick sky. The air still within this cul-de-sac of stone; the drab grass drifting only seldom in a sluggish breeze. No howling voices today. Yet still Mugg-Medias thought he felt the stifling, staring presence of the dead. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mihail leaned forward. The red light of the candle bled up over both our faces. “Well then I’ll keep speaking your language, if you’ll survive. Have you ever heard of the ‘Devshirme System’?” “It sounds electrifying.” “Also sometimes called the ‘Ottoman Blood Tax?’” --Performed by Marta da Silva. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Those white… flakes, they fall down. On this winter night, this cold, cold winter night, the White drifts gently down to blanket me. Each inhalation of it burns my insides worse, cuts me like icy glass. And he looks down. It looks down, white too. No face, though I know it’s saying ‘I tried to warn you.’ --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The Oracle of Canada.” One of the great guiding lights of Canadian contemporary art. Tragic figure. Welcome to the self-guided audio tour for the 10 year retrospective of the great Eloise Kestrel’s life and work. --Special thanks to Isabel Brandt for providing research, writing support, and additional material for this episode. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It had to be some sort of boutique. A specialty shop. Secret, hyper-exclusive, a speakeasy of lingerie. That light on every night, and the changing silks that crawled up plastic thighs in the window. It had to be. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cutman isn't really a doctor, and it’s not really medicine. On the contrary; you’re patching your guy up so you can send him out there to get hurt some more. But nothing that they didn’t sign up for. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holidays shift and change over time, evolve, mutate one might say. Halloween is no different. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Jane,” she said, “when the next train comes, you will check to make sure it’s normal, and then you will get on it.” Normal? But the man- “Wait for the next train. And stay on the line with me while you wait, it’s important that you stay on the line. It’s safer.” --Written by Mary Gillis, and performed by Rachel Hart. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finally, after a few weeks, Saul posted about his condition in the general board. It was a short post, written without capitalization, almost like he didn’t want anyone to think it was a big deal. I read his symptoms. Re-read them. I whispered them to myself, almost giddy. I was his only reply. I wrote: “I think you should join the Hidden board.” --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 7 is here. The future of podcasting... is here. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the last few rounds, the Witch Machine had been making a slight groan. But now that groan turned into a whine and an ominous rattle. We all recoiled as the whine rose to a moan and then a keening howl. Sometimes mechanical-sounding, sometimes almost human. --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three stories. Three worlds. One truth. Featuring "NAM-LU-GAL, which means KINGSHIP," "The Crack in Everything," and "Manna From Heaven." --The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices