Rusty Fears 4 - The Budding

This week, as part of our fourth Rusty Fears writing competition, we present "The Budding" written by Thekla Kenneison, directed by Hannah Preisinger and performed by Fay Roberts. Note: this is a piece of stand-alone fiction and not a part of the Magnus canon. Content warnings: Anxiety & imposter syndrome Body horror Teeth Graphic self-injury Self-recriminations & self-doubt Occasional second-person POV Paranoia Discussions of: injuries & pain, medical issues, self-hatred, blood Mentions of: nightmares SFX: continuous low-pitched & high-pitched drone, throbbing Transcripts: PDF - https://bit.ly/3v6GPan DOC - https://bit.ly/3v9tXAh Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill. Edited by Nico Vettese & Jeffrey Nils Gardner Produced by Lowri Ann Davies Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop & https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill. You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear. Join our community: WEBSITE: rustyquill.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill TWITTER: @therustyquill REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill EMAIL: [email protected] The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon. Buy a copy of FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER: rustyquill.com/novel Pre-order The Magnus Protocol novel WORK YOUR FINGERS TO THE BONE releasing July 13th 2027: rustyquill.com/fingers