Melissa Miles explores the concept of anthropomorphism and wonders how a car would interact with its family if it had thoughts and feelings.

Melissa Miles was born in the US but resides in New Zealand. She has had many professional iterations--acting, teaching, film-making--but is now focused on her writing and caring for her aging menagerie.

You can read "Rover" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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This is a story about friendship, who you trust, and who comes through for you in your time of need. Sometimes, that’s who you least expect.

Tyler Marable studies creative writing at Google University. He enjoys good food, good beer, and good people. He is an African American and aims to write fiction with protagonists that are POC, but also aims to write fiction that appeals to all races and ethnic groups. He writes in many different genres, but this is the first horror story of his to be published. His fiction has appeared in The Scarlet Leaf Review, Fabula Argentea, and Bewildering Stories.

You can read "Carpooler, LLC" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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Four teenagers visit the town’s haunted house. The party they encounter in the house, though, has nothing to do with the booze and weed they brought with them.

This is a complicated story, with scene changes and multiple voices. It was a real challenge to present. Unlike my normal podcasts, which have no sound effects, I used an eerie background drone to indicate when the action happens in the ghost world, and when it is in the real world of the teens. And it is the back and forth between the two worlds in the first section that, I think, really builds the tension. I hope you think so, too.

Lon Sanders lives in Delaware and spends much of their time lurking in graveyards, listening to the stories of the ghosts who reside there, and casting spells on people they really don’t like or trust.

You can read "The House Always Wins" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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What’s your ailment? Feeling old and tired? Do you have a bum knee or sciatica shooting pain down your leg? Whatever your ailment—rheumatism, toothache, sore throat, from itchy insect bites to ingrown toenail to ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Mister Mungo’s Fanciful Elixir Cures All. You’ll grow to depend on it, but it’s so reasonaly priced, you’ll be back for more and more. Ah…but have you ever wondered where your favorite snake oil comes from? And what will happen when it runs out?

Glenn Dungan is currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder.  For more of his work, see his website: whereisglennnow.com or following his on Instagram: whereisglennnow.

You can read "Mr. Mongo's Fanciful Elixir" at https://www.whiteenso.com/ghost-stories-2022

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Imagine your husband, wife, partner, just ups and disappears one day, then a few weeks later, you get a letter from them. Well, you would rip open that letter with so many questions and hopes. And, from a writer’s perspective, the possibilities for a good story are endless with this premise. Well, in Dear Madeline, Christian Riley gives us a good story, one with a weird little twist that, as he repeatedly says to Madeline, you had better sit down to hear.

Chris Riley lives near Sacramento, California, vowing one day to move back to the Pacific Northwest. In the meantime, he teaches special education, writes cool stories, and hides from the blasting heat for six months of the year. He has had over 100 short stories published in various magazines and anthologies, and across various genres. He is the author of the literary suspense novels The Sinking of the Angie Piper (Coffeetown Press, 2017) and The Broken Pines (forthcoming), and his debut short story collection of weird fiction is pending publication with Mount Abraxas Press. For more information, go to www.chrisrileyauthor.com.   

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In "The Shrine," Pettus takes us on a journey into a deep, dark forest, a creepy, dilapidated trailer, and a weird shrine to the Virgin Mary. There’s rock music, nasty people, innocents and monsters…in short, everything you would want in a story that is the first in our October Halloween series.

Robert Pettus is an English as a Second Language teacher at the University of Cincinnati. Previously, he taught for four years in a combination of rural Thailand and Moscow, Russia. He was most recently accepted for publication at The Horror Tree, White Enso, White Cat Publications, Short-Story.me, Savage Planet, Tall Tale TV, The Corner Bar, A Thin Line of Anxiety, Schlock, Black Petals, Inscape Literary Journal of Morehead State University, Yellow Mama, Apocalypse-Confidential, Mystery Tribune, Blood Moon Rising, and The Green Shoes Sanctuary.

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The emergency room is full of blood and gore and death. It may be surprising, then, that the character in Prosit’s story, chooses deer hunting as a means of relaxation. But sometimes, there is no escape.

Joe Prosit writes sci-fi, horror, and psycho fiction. “Machines, Monsters and Maniacs” is a self-published collection of sixteen of his short stories. You can find it on Amazon or at his website, at www.JoeProsit.com. If you’re an adept stalker, you can find him on one of the many lakes and rivers or lost deep inside the Great North Woods. Or you can just follow him on Twitter: @joeprosit.

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A friendly ghost helps a detective solve a long-standing mystery. Sometimes, mysteries may be better left unsolved.

James Rumpel is a retired high school math teacher who has greatly enjoyed spending some of his free time turning a few of the odd ideas circling his brain into stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.

You can read "The Blue Murders" at https://www.whiteenso.com/ghost-stories-2022

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If we can't find our way out of a problem, can something out there help us find our way?

Dondi Dancy is a career Paralegal and founder/facilitator of a virtual book club, who writes short stories and prose poetry to remain grounded and aware of all that is beautiful in the world. Her portfolio includes: an Open Mic Poetry Showcase with Sacred Grounds (January 2022); the short story, “Driving Home” (Rigorous Literary Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 4, January 2022); the poem “Conceptual Beauty” (Brown Sugar Literary Magazine, Spring 2021); and a brief poetry collection titled “Joy is My Superpower” (SF-Write Now Talking to Strangers Anthology, December 2021).

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The Kaidankai Podcast features original short fiction exploring horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the strange.

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