Episode 4: Antifasquatch

Join us tonight for a live critique of Gordon's inaugural addition to Rain Shadows Volume Two, based on the prompts: Sasquatch, The Humans are the Real Monsters, and the Northern State Mental Hospital.

This episode from Season 2 of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW is brought to you by Fermented Fiction
(fermentedfiction.substack.com/)

Music and sound effects via Epidemic Sound
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In this month’s hot seat: Gordon B. White
Story title: ANTIFASQUATCH

Episode 5 Prompts (timestamps for reveals):
 55:48 M. Leigh reveals her prompt (Location: Brewery or distillery in Seattle or Tacoma)
 56:43 Gordon reveals his prompt (horror trope: “A Deal with the Devil”)
 57:35 Clay reveals his prompt (Pacific Northwest quirk: home-cultivated kombucha)
Next show livestreams May 27, 2026 (youtube.com/@FermentedFiction)
Next recorded show drops June 3, 2026 (fermentedfiction.substack.com/s/sinister-soup)
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List of links to worthy mentions from recorded show (in order)
(people, books, events, news items etc + anything related to BTRS Books or Fermented Fiction)
 02:40 SquatchCon 2026
 02:57 Authors: Josh Cutchin, Kendare Blake, Lish McBride, Jen Flanagan
 03:03 Artists: Cammry Lapka, Jenny Bingham-Blenk
 03:13 MadLibs
 04:03 PNWA 2026 conference
 04:12 Pacific Northwest Writers Association contest
 04:42 Black Hare Press
 04:58 Author NJ Gallegos
 05:46 Eagle Harbor Books (Bainbridge Island, WA)
 05:51 Author Luciano Marano
 07:15 Backstreet Beat
 07:35 Film: The Witch
 07:53 Cairn (part two in the Voices From the Cold trilogy) by Clay Vermulm
 08:03 Crevasse (part one in the Voices From the Cold trilogy) by Clay Vermulm
 10:15 Crypticon 2026
 10:32 Camp Crypticon III contest anthology
 10:37 HWA Seattle chapter

SHOW NOTES, BTRS S2
April 28, 2025
SHOW NOTES FOR S2 EP4 of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW
Attach to the livestream descrip in YouTube + recorded episode text in Substack
 11:38 Author Matt Dinniman
 12:57 StokerCon
 13:13 Author Philip Fracassi
 13:19 Author Jeff C. Carter, podcast host: We Bleed Orange & Black
 15:42 Social hangover
 16:22 Fermented Fiction livestream debate [The Shining] with Matt Dinniman & Philip Fracassi
 20:28 BTRS Books
 20:53 Author Josef B. Wilke
 21:09 Rhymes With Camera Substack: “Finding Hope… In Punk”
 23:58 Milford Method
 25:22 Northern State Hospital
 25:49 Faulknerian
 31:18 Canterbury Tales
 31:51 archetype
 31:56 epistolary
 32:00 in-world vernacular (see AC Meehan’s “World Building: Slang, Idioms& Adages”)
 37:10 braided narrative (see Rachel Neumeier’s “Braided Narratives”)
 37:37 Greek chorus as perspective (see LitReactor, “Storyville: Using a Chorus in Your Fiction”)
 39:51 urban legend
 41:51 dystopia
 43:08 “Chekhov’s crematorium” (referencing Chekhov’s Gun)
 44:22 polyphonic structure
 44:55 Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different by
Chuck Pahlaniuk
 44:59 texture in story crafting (see Kara Jorgensen’s “Adding Texture to Your Story”)
 47:42 The Write Practice: “ Pantsers vs Plotters vs Plantsers ”
 56:56 Faustian bargain
 59:13 Filmmaker Frank Henenlotter
 1:00:27 Slime mold
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ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
Clay Vermulm: Podcaster, author, editor, filmmaker, publisher
 https://www.clayvermulmfiction.com/
 Of interest: Cairn (Voices from the Cold trilogy, Book II) [Dark Forest Press 2026]

Tamara Kaye Sellman: Author, podcaster, editor, filmmaker, publisher
 www.rhymeswithcamera.com
 Of interest: Rain Shadows: Dark Tales From Washington State [BTRS Books, 2025]

M. Leigh: Podcaster, author
 https://www.mleighstories.com/
 Of interest: “Where Are All The Boogeyladies?” [Horror Inherent, 2024]

Gordon B. White: Podcaster, author, mentor
 https://www.gordonbwhite.com/
 Of interest: Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror(s) [Trepidatio Publishing, 2023]
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