75.3 The Pleasure of Pain
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories17 Huhti 2022

75.3 The Pleasure of Pain

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The Pleasure of Pain


'When a user is introduced to a drug that makes pain pleasurable and then hooks up with a dominatrix, it was always likely to end up in A&E. The question is, what was done on the operating table?'


Written by Liam Hogan (http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk)

Narrated by James Barnett AKA Jimmy Horrors (https://twitter.com/jimmyhorrors)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

And Chris Zabriskie (https://soundcloud.com/chriszabriskie)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington for serving up fresh scoops of content from his social media Ice Cream Van.


Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). More details at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk


James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast. You can also catch other works of his at http://www.jamesbarnettauthor.com


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