This week, as part of our fourth Rusty Fears writing competition, we present "The Budding" written by Thekla Kenneison, directed by Hannah Preisinger and performed by Fay Roberts. Note: this is a piece of stand-alone fiction and not a part of the Magnus canon. Content warnings: - Anxiety & imposter syndrome - Body horror - Teeth - Graphic self-injury - Self-recriminations & self-doubt - Occasional second-person POV - Paranoia - Discussions of: injuries & pain, medical issues, self-hatred, blood - Mentions of: nightmares - SFX: continuous low-pitched & high-pitched drone, throbbing Transcripts: PDF - https://bit.ly/3v6GPan DOC - https://bit.ly/3v9tXAh Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill. Edited by Nico Vettese & Jeffrey Nils Gardner Produced by Lowri Ann Davies Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop & https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill. You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear. Join our community: WEBSITE: rustyquill.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill TWITTER: @therustyquill REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill DISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8y EMAIL: [email protected] The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.