The Wandering Winsome

Wil Winsome is a magician-for-hire, whose newest case may involved excising a possessing spirit from a beloved and fragile grandmother.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Horror

Excerpt: What I got from my mother was her hands.

I am the only one among my brothers and sisters who can do real magic. It took study and struggle, true. I’m only half-fairy after all. I am also the only one because my brothers and sisters chose other paths. Paths less littered with singed parchment, bearing symbols written in the faded sepia of dried blood. Paths less meandering into the mouths of bat-filled caverns. Paths less soaked in potions made of dogs’ breath and widows’ tears.

What story or stories am I revisiting in this episode? Each Season 8 episode is a standalone story, but it’s connected to or inspired by a previous story through a character, a place, an object, a concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so on. This week’s story is connected to the Year One story entitled “The Dolls,” in which the character of Wil Winsome first appears, as a child, with four siblings, and an evil stepmother.

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CREDITSStory: “The Wandering Winsome” Copyright © 2020 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:  Nila L. Patel

Music: “Trust Me” by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Intro) “Unsolved” by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Outro) “Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* “Devasted” “The forest” “Unsolved” “Northern dusk” “Ashes” “Orbs” “Horns” “Trust me” “Blood and bones” “The ritual” “Creatures of the night”

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle, and GameDevMarket, and Soundly (through Hindenburg) Changes made to the musical tracks? Just cropping of some to align with my narration.

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing of composite image. On the right is a young woman seen from the back and the waist up, wearing a dark red coat and a satchel across her body, slung over her left shoulder. Her hair is tied in a braid that wreaths her head. Her right hand holds up a button, which sparkles with some magic. On the left, positioned behind the woman is a vaguely humanoid shadow holding up a hand with mangled fingers. In the middle foreground, not to scale, is the translucent image of a hound standing and facing out. The hound has three pairs of eyes and a curled segmented tail. Watermark of “Storyfeather” along right upper arm. The rectangular image is made square with a border at top and bottom with a vertical ripple pattern in colors that match the main image.