This is a sequel story to one from way back - "The Summoning". In this episode, I have some special guests to help me with the dialogue - many thanks to Carol and Megan.

The girl who summoned a fire spirit and left with it for a life of adventure is back, and she's in trouble - she trapped the spirit in a bottle at the bottom of the ocean, and because her life is tied to the spirits, she's not free unless she undoes what she did.

The Crazy Bee Woman (not all crazy) is leaving town with a woman who has a fish in her belly. Will they help? Of course they will...

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Come Rain Or Shine, The Mail Will Arrive On Time

But what if it’s eaten by a bunch of piranhas while being rowed across a deadly moat to the castle mailbox?

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Norah steals into the museum, intent on stealing something. Through a different window, Zebadiah does the same. They’re after an urn that might contain a blessing, or a curse – which it is depends on the answer to the question: what if you got exactly what you wanted?

Who will end up with the urn?

And will they receive a blessing, or a curse?

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I found a ticket to an unusual circus and got lost in a hall of mirrors, and I didn’t like what they showed me. The ringmaster told me this was no ordinary circus – that everyone there was the act they came to see. He asked me if I liked my act and I had to say no, I didn’t like it at all. To which he replied: if you don’t like your act, change it…

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Every day, just before sunrise, Chance flips a coin. The stakes are high. Heads, time continues. Tails, it’s the end of days…

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Aleida is afraid of the jungle. The way it’s crawling with life – vines and lichens and insects and animals, all striving and pulsing and reaching. If she stands still for long enough, she’ll be eaten alive. And it wouldn’t be personal – it’d just be because she was there.

Her uncle sends her into the jungle at night, searching for glowing mushrooms, and Aleida is sure there are hundreds, thousands of eyes staring at her in the dark. Her terror escalates until she runs out of fear… and finds something unexpected on the other side of it.

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Morgan loves the railway. The platform, the ticket office, the waiting room, the shining rails. The trains, running neatly to the schedule, keeping time.

At the same time, Morgan hates the railway. The platform, the ticket office, the waiting room, the shining rails. The rigidity of the timetable, the neat columns of hours and minutes dictating the movements of the lumbering trains, the way his days are always the same.

There’s nothing special about Morgan. Until he’s asked by a small, sticky child, who believes he’s magic, how he makes the trains come, and he learns that perhaps he IS magic and perhaps time isn’t his master, but his servant…

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The Complaints Department is back for their seventh instalment.

Joseph is living the wrong life. Every day he gets up, puts on a clean white shirt and neat black trousers and goes to sit in an office, answering telephones, aching with longing for something more. He comes across the Complaints Department by accident and doesn’t believe that it’s real – he thinks it’s enough to take an action that means nothing, posting a complaint into a letterbox that clearly goes nowhere.

Except… it doesn’t go nowhere, and Joseph gets more than he bargained for…

Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy the story. If you do, and want more – become a podcast patron on Patreon! Patrons receive bonus stories not found here (there are many waiting for you already, and another added every four weeks), and other goodies - including my undying thanks. Literally undying... even after I'm dead and gone, my thanks'll be hanging around, haunting stuff. You can find out more about what’s on offer and subscribe at ⁠patreon.com/canitellyouastory⁠ You can also follow Can I tell you a story? in these places: IG: ⁠instagram.com/canitellyouastorypodcast⁠ FB: ⁠facebook.com/canitellyouastorypodcast⁠ Many thanks to Satya Matteo for creating the music for this podcast – if you’d like to check out more of his music, you can find him in these places: satyamatteo.bandcamp.com/⁠ facebook.com/soundoftheheart/ instagram.com/satyamatteomusic/