Howls from the Scene of the Crime
Noir Thorntonš¤;) for Narrator: General Auditions (Man protagonist, Old West setting)
Narrators of all genders, identities, and backgrounds welcome.
This anthology features dark fiction, so we want to hear your ability to guide the listener's emotions--whether the appropriate emotion is dread, shock, horror, terror, or disgust.
Please audition with the following excerpt:
I pulled some bullets from my belt, made sure to make a show of some nervous jittering, dropping one or two. Once I finished loadinā the gun, I pulled back the hammer, let it slip as though my sweat was makinā it difficult.
Then I raised the gun once more without cocking the hammer and pulled the trigger.
Yā see, like Iāve said, us Dogs use magic of our own. We deal enough with the supernatural that it makes enough sense that we, ourselves, deal in the supernatural as well. But unlike olā Ben and his cult, we use ourselves as fuel. Itās the natural order of things, the balance to this here life.
My gun went off, takinā not the metal of the bullets inside for ammunition, but rather tearinā off a piece of my soul. And nothing kills a demon faster than the electric snap of oneās soul.
A part of my personality slipped away with that shot. I think maybe it was my joy as there was no fun to be had watchinā the deputyās face sour in surprise as part of me slipped into his skull and blasted the shadows out of his body. It fell to the ground, no noise, no movement.
Like I said, demons were arrogant.
Both the deputy and devil were dead.
- english
- male adult
- wild west
- western/cowboy
- audiobook
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