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    Spawning Season: A Short Horror Story
    Spawning Season: A Short Horror Story
    Spawning Season: A Short Horror Story
    Audiobook20 minutes

    Spawning Season: A Short Horror Story

    Written by Nicholas Kaufmann

    Narrated by Ramón de Ocampo

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    About this audiobook

    "Spawning Season" is a short horror story by Nicholas Kaufmann, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

    Net the fish and trap the prawn.
    Blow the sea horn when it's time to spawn.
    Sire your sons without any fuss.
    One for the ocean and one for us.

    Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTor Nightfire
    Release dateFeb 11, 2020
    ISBN9781250625533
    Spawning Season: A Short Horror Story
    Author

    Nicholas Kaufmann

    NICHOLAS KAUFMANN  is the author of Dying is My Business. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two cats—one of which has special needs, the other of which only pretends to.

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    • 3/5
      Interesting though it made me glad I was born in Missouri. Ha.
    • 5/5
      im going to be honest, i found this more sweet than horror, but regardless it was a delight to listen to. xenobiology & queer fatherhood :)