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1.	The House 15:29	buy track
2.	Inheritance 12:07	buy track
3.	A Lübeck Nativity 11:32	buy track
4.	Bride 16:13	buy track
5.	Vertumnus 21:16	buy track

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five original short stories by a.s. ember in a poetic and chilling chapbook, presented in both audio and pdf formats (purchase includes both).

in "The House", an entity discovers an abandoned development project in the forest. this is a post-capitalist, anarcho-primitivist fable of greed, modern comforts, and horrific consequence.

in "Inheritance", a young woman returns to her childhood home upon the death of a parent to retrieve an item from her father's basement.

in "A Lübeck Nativity", the biblical narrative is uprooted and placed in the unforgiving clay pits of medieval germany, where a suffering woman collects clay for st. mary's church while dreaming of her children, who all died in infancy.

in "Bride", the vampire bride stereotype is explored and subverted in a disorienting reimagining of scenes from bram stoker's dracula.

in "Vertumnus", two children investigate the mysterious house behind an immense hedge, the home of a botanist who has not been seen for many years.

** content warnings **
"The House" contains allusions to murder and cannibalism
"Inheritance" contains mild language and alludes to abuse suffered at the hands of a parent
"A Lübeck Nativity" contains sexual content and scenes of miscarriage and death by burning
in "Bride", the sympathetic character is largely without agency
"Vertumnus" contains mild body horror and children characters in peril

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released October 28, 2022

Incidental music in the special presentation by Asher Graieg-Morrison: ashergraiegmorrison.bandcamp.com

"The House" was first published in April 2020 on the author's blog: skrymir.wordpress.com
"Inheritance" is based on a story created for a short film of the same name directed by Aaron Dawson: youtu.be/GH57fHtnhJ0
"A Lübeck Nativity" is inspired by the biblical Christmas narrative and the firebombing of the city of Lübeck by the RAF in 1942
"Bride" is inspired by "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"Vertumnus" contains references to the painting of the same name by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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