71.3 The Weight of Your Glare

<p>This episode of The Other Stories has been sponsored by the Maniac On The Loose Scary Stories podcast. For more information head over to <a href="http://www.maniacontheloose.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.maniacontheloose.com</a>.</p><br><p><strong>The Weight of Your Glare</strong></p><p><em>When a young girl is bartered away to a god, she will do whatever it takes to free herself. This story looks at the Medusa myth from the perspective of the monster herself, but how much of a monster is she really?</em></p><br><p>Written and narrated by Jasmine Arch (<a href="https://www.jasminearch.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.jasminearch.com</a>)</p><p>Edited by Karl Hughes (<a href="https://twitter.com/karlhughes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/karlhughes</a>)</p><p>With music by Blear Moon (<a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon</a>)</p><p>And Thom Robson (<a href="https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/</a>)</p><p>The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (<a href="https://carrionhouse.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://carrionhouse.com/</a>)</p><p>A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch</p><p>And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.</p><p>And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.</p><br><p><strong>Jasmine Arch is a writer, poet, narrator, podcaster and all round chaos-for-brains Jasmine Arch lives in a nook of Belgian countryside with two horses, four dogs, and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Other Stories, </strong><a href="http://NewMyths.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>NewMyths.com</strong></a><strong> a