S1.4 The Tail End

The Tail End After nearly drowning in a shipwreck, a young man mistakes a village girl for his savior, not knowing it was a mermaid from old sea lore who pulled him from the depths. Scorned, she calls upon ancient tides to claim what was promised—his heart, or his life. Written by Mary Pastrano ( ) Narrated by Josh Curran Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou ( ) With music by Free Music Archive ( ) And Thom Robson ( ) And sound effects provided by Soundly.org The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes ( ) Joshua Boucher is our story programmer. Jasmine Arch manages our community. Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos. And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors. Mary Pastrano is a writer and educator from Southern California whose work has appeared on The Other Stories Podcast and the Tales From Midnight Anthology by SurrealArts Publishing. You can find out more about her on Instagram at @MaryPWriter Josh Curran is a narrator and writer. He has narrated many episodes of The Other Stories over the show’s lifetime. He is also the creator of the horror Audio-Drama podcast, Miscreation . Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at Support the show, get audiobooks, and more at Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at Leave a voicemail or get in touch at Check out our writing courses at Grab some merch at The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S1.4 The Tail End is an episode from The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories by Luke Kondor.

This episode is 15:46 long.

This episode was published on Apr 5, 2026.

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