Myths and Legends2024-08-23T10:26:42-04:00

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392-1001 Nights: The Unthinkable (part 1 of 2)

🐍Hasib wants to avoid a freak library accident🐍 So he will avoid learning anything. Ever. This week, it's the story of Hasib and the Queen of Serpents, the snake woman with a [...]

391-Japanese Horror: Handsome Bad Man

👹If you can't be with the one you love...👹 Love the one you're with? What? No. Kill everyone in your way until you get what you want. This week: a ghost story [...]

390-Hans Christian Andersen: Swan Song

🦢 Let them eat sand 🦢 A story from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen about a witch who wants to take over the kingdom and the twelve kids who stand in her [...]

389-Korean Folklore: Star-crossed

🖤 The Story of Why You Don't Menace Crows. Even if the people you're doing it to try to mess with are extremely annoying and lovey-dovey. Or, if you're single and looking, [...]

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Carissa Weiser

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Carissa is a former audiology professor with a background in psychoacoustics, linguistics, and creative writing. She loves her family, photography, tennis season, and riding horses.

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Jason is a former hospital researcher with a background in English literature and narrative theory. He's a big fan of his wife and child, hiking, Batman, and cake (the dessert, but the band's ok, too).

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