Comments on: Pseudopod 049: Big Boy http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/ The Sound of Horror. Pseudopod is the world\'s first audio horror magazine. We deliver bone-chilling stories from today\'s most talented authors straight to your computer or MP3 player. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Pitmonkey http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-182033 Pitmonkey Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:13:53 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-182033 <p>Wow. For all the disturbing stories I've listened to here, this one really gets under my skin.</p> <p>Well done. Looking forward to the next couple year's worth of catching up (working my way from '06 to '09).</p> Wow. For all the disturbing stories I’ve listened to here, this one really gets under my skin.

Well done. Looking forward to the next couple year’s worth of catching up (working my way from ‘06 to ‘09).

]]> By: Scatterbrain http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-25493 Scatterbrain Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:57:34 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-25493 <p>This was my first podcast story I listened to a year or so ago and I'll never forget it...not ever.</p> This was my first podcast story I listened to a year or so ago and I’ll never forget it…not ever.

]]> By: Mari Mitchell http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-20990 Mari Mitchell Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:05:42 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-20990 <p>Have ever noticed that zombie tales tend to over really well.</p> <p>I thought this had great tensions. Real tension.</p> <p>Wonderfully subtle—why Peter was in daycare, why his folk’s were fighting.</p> <p>This a smart tale.</p> <p>And talk about character development.</p> <p>The reading was good but not great.</p> Have ever noticed that zombie tales tend to over really well.

I thought this had great tensions. Real tension.

Wonderfully subtle—why Peter was in daycare, why his folk’s were fighting.

This a smart tale.

And talk about character development.

The reading was good but not great.

]]> By: Rich DeMars http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-7774 Rich DeMars Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:28:39 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-7774 <p>That was awesome, loved the affair!</p> That was awesome, loved the affair!

]]> By: Fran Friel http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-7587 Fran Friel Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:08:50 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-7587 <p>Great story, Ron! I love the twist on the old zombie story. Excellent title, as well.</p> <p>Hugs, Fran Friel</p> Great story, Ron! I love the twist on the old zombie story. Excellent title, as well.

Hugs, Fran Friel

]]> By: Sam http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-7175 Sam Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:50:14 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-7175 <p>As much as I enjoy the zombie genre, I couldn't stand the writing on this one. I understand that it was written from the perspective of a child, but the simple sentence structure and repetition of words got under my skin and ruined it for me.</p> As much as I enjoy the zombie genre, I couldn’t stand the writing on this one. I understand that it was written from the perspective of a child, but the simple sentence structure and repetition of words got under my skin and ruined it for me.

]]> By: Tiki Shark http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-5563 Tiki Shark Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:59:38 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-5563 <p>Bravo! I LOVE zombie stories! I LOVE the whole end of the world by zombie (or interdimesnional creatures) plague thing. Not sure why, but it always gets me! This was a interesting and fresh version, a great listen!!! But, of course, like all good "End of the world" stories, the ending is a always tad of a downer.</p> <p>Still this ending was sudden and left you breathless. I say Smartly done!</p> <p>Course, you got those endings where everything is fixed all of a sudden, ala "Day of the Tirffids". But then you feel you were "cheated" by the author.</p> <p>I give it top marks!</p> Bravo! I LOVE zombie stories! I LOVE the whole end of the world by zombie (or interdimesnional creatures) plague thing. Not sure why, but it always gets me! This was a interesting and fresh version, a great listen!!! But, of course, like all good “End of the world” stories, the ending is a always tad of a downer.

Still this ending was sudden and left you breathless. I say Smartly done!

Course, you got those endings where everything is fixed all of a sudden, ala “Day of the Tirffids”. But then you feel you were “cheated” by the author.

I give it top marks!

]]> By: B http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-5176 B Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:18:52 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-5176 <p>Fantastic story, really unique perspective. Rather odd that some of the zombies just killed and ignored the remains, like in the car; and yet some others consumed the remains and even ignored the living while doing so, like in the bedroom.</p> <p>I also enjoyed the real world aspect. The dad being lost in a sea of chaos, then grabbing onto the first thing from the normal world (his wife cheating on him) and focusing on that instead of the apocalypse going on around him. Very nice.</p> <p>PS: You had to make them both the fast kind and the tool using kind, lol</p> Fantastic story, really unique perspective. Rather odd that some of the zombies just killed and ignored the remains, like in the car; and yet some others consumed the remains and even ignored the living while doing so, like in the bedroom.

I also enjoyed the real world aspect. The dad being lost in a sea of chaos, then grabbing onto the first thing from the normal world (his wife cheating on him) and focusing on that instead of the apocalypse going on around him. Very nice.

PS: You had to make them both the fast kind and the tool using kind, lol

]]> By: B http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-5175 B Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:17:16 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-5175 <p>Fantastic story, really unique perspective. Rather odd that some of the zombies just killed and ignored the remains, like in the car; and yet some others consumed the remains and even ignored the living while doing so, like in the bedroom.</p> Fantastic story, really unique perspective. Rather odd that some of the zombies just killed and ignored the remains, like in the car; and yet some others consumed the remains and even ignored the living while doing so, like in the bedroom.

]]> By: Bright Lies http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4406 Bright Lies Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:35:04 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4406 <p>LOL I love reading all o' y'all's comments...</p> <p>This story seemed to end abrubptly, but I thought it was appropriate. What would have happened next anyway? All of us could write the "ending" independently and I don't think any ending would be very surprising. The intro from a child's POV was the story. The ending would just be an ending. I say well-timed and TY Escape Artists!</p> <p>FEED THE POD!</p> <p>BL</p> LOL I love reading all o’ y’all’s comments…

This story seemed to end abrubptly, but I thought it was appropriate. What would have happened next anyway? All of us could write the “ending” independently and I don’t think any ending would be very surprising. The intro from a child’s POV was the story. The ending would just be an ending. I say well-timed and TY Escape Artists!

FEED THE POD!

BL

]]> By: Dave (aka Nev the Deranged... or is it the other way around?) http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4394 Dave (aka Nev the Deranged... or is it the other way around?) Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:20:52 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4394 <p>Wow, I was really enjoying that.</p> <p>So, is Pseudopod changing to a new format where we have to pay for the endings?</p> Wow, I was really enjoying that.

So, is Pseudopod changing to a new format where we have to pay for the endings?

]]> By: Kyle_Carm http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4285 Kyle_Carm Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:24:24 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4285 <p>I agree it ended abruptly, that was the only thing I didn't like otherwise it was a tight story and well read!!!</p> I agree it ended abruptly, that was the only thing I didn’t like otherwise it was a tight story and well read!!!

]]> By: phignewton http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4016 phignewton Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:22:08 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4016 <p>oh, i'm sure they'll be back, his dad displays all the extreme bad-assery needed to survive such an outbreak of zombies... i mean locking the kids in the car, probably with the windows up, just so he can check to see who his deceased wife was cheating with?.... he probably smokes unfiltered ciggaretts, consumes saturated fats and doesnt think twice about squashing spiders, he is a zombie survivor!</p> oh, i’m sure they’ll be back, his dad displays all the extreme bad-assery needed to survive such an outbreak of zombies… i mean locking the kids in the car, probably with the windows up, just so he can check to see who his deceased wife was cheating with?…. he probably smokes unfiltered ciggaretts, consumes saturated fats and doesnt think twice about squashing spiders, he is a zombie survivor!

]]> By: Spork http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4015 Spork Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:21:03 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-4015 <p>I really enjoyed this story, but it fails in the same way that Matthew Wayne Selznick's Brave Men Run story fails. It has no ending, it just stops.</p> I really enjoyed this story, but it fails in the same way that Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run story fails. It has no ending, it just stops.

]]> By: Ben Phillips http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3982 Ben Phillips Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:19:28 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3982 <p>...and they waited, and they waited. Be brave, little Peter! Maybe they left you the keys -- it's not too early to try learning how to drive. And if they took the keys with them, maybe they left a shotgun in the cab -- definitely about time for you to learn to use one of those, too. Don't worry, you'll be just fine. Heh heh heh.</p> …and they waited, and they waited. Be brave, little Peter! Maybe they left you the keys — it’s not too early to try learning how to drive. And if they took the keys with them, maybe they left a shotgun in the cab — definitely about time for you to learn to use one of those, too. Don’t worry, you’ll be just fine. Heh heh heh.

]]> By: Bruce P http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3949 Bruce P Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:41:43 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3949 <p>Simeon, I don't think it's possible for my kid to have nightmares. I was watching Pterodactyl on Sci-Fi. He got out of bed, and walked in just as one of the monsters ripped a guy in half. My kid laughed, and said, "Daddy! They forgot to take his legs!"</p> <p>So either I'm raising a kid with nerves of steel, or he's going to kill me in my sleep...</p> Simeon, I don’t think it’s possible for my kid to have nightmares. I was watching Pterodactyl on Sci-Fi. He got out of bed, and walked in just as one of the monsters ripped a guy in half. My kid laughed, and said, “Daddy! They forgot to take his legs!”

So either I’m raising a kid with nerves of steel, or he’s going to kill me in my sleep…

]]> By: Dischord http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3948 Dischord Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:39:17 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3948 <p>Excellent plot, great characters. Overall, a good story. The writing needed a good bit of tightening up, though. There was too much filtering language ('he could see' instead of 'he saw' etc.) This is maybe one or two revisions away from being truly excellent.</p> Excellent plot, great characters. Overall, a good story. The writing needed a good bit of tightening up, though. There was too much filtering language (’he could see’ instead of ‘he saw’ etc.) This is maybe one or two revisions away from being truly excellent.

]]> By: Simeon Weinraub http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3943 Simeon Weinraub Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:47:28 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3943 <p>Well, that is just good parenting. I don't think that my 4 year old is ready for that yet, I don't want him to have nightmares. So, I am just teaching him to work the speed loader.</p> <p>But, as soon as he turns 5, this story will become part of my instructional materials.</p> Well, that is just good parenting. I don’t think that my 4 year old is ready for that yet, I don’t want him to have nightmares. So, I am just teaching him to work the speed loader.

But, as soon as he turns 5, this story will become part of my instructional materials.

]]> By: Bruce P http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3940 Bruce P Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:46:51 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3940 <p>I just purchased the Zombies!!! and Zombietown boardgames to help teach my son appropriate behavior during a zombie apocalypse.</p> I just purchased the Zombies!!! and Zombietown boardgames to help teach my son appropriate behavior during a zombie apocalypse.

]]> By: Simeon Weinraub http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3934 Simeon Weinraub Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:02:27 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3934 <p>I also have a son about that age. So, I would like to add my voice to the call for a Little Einsteins or LeapPad version of "How to Survive a Zombie Attack." I have been wasting all this time teaching him his ABC's, basic phonics, and some math concepts, when I should have been teaching him to destroy the brain to stop the body.</p> I also have a son about that age. So, I would like to add my voice to the call for a Little Einsteins or LeapPad version of “How to Survive a Zombie Attack.” I have been wasting all this time teaching him his ABC’s, basic phonics, and some math concepts, when I should have been teaching him to destroy the brain to stop the body.

]]> By: Bjoern http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3933 Bjoern Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:52:15 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3933 <p>Could it be that there a WAY too many zombie stories on Pseudopod lately? Yes.</p> <p>But THIS story is a real jewel, a masterpiece! The different perspective is absolutely believable and well-read.</p> Could it be that there a WAY too many zombie stories on Pseudopod lately? Yes.

But THIS story is a real jewel, a masterpiece! The different perspective is absolutely believable and well-read.

]]> By: Bruce P http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3914 Bruce P Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:48:34 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3914 <p>This story terrified me. My little boy starts Kindergarten next week; all I could think about was him being alone in a similar situation.</p> This story terrified me. My little boy starts Kindergarten next week; all I could think about was him being alone in a similar situation.

]]> By: Jon http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3910 Jon Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:36:19 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3910 <p>This story confirmed what I've long suspected... that one of the most truly horrifying things imaginable is to be a helpless child facing imminent and senseless death.</p> This story confirmed what I’ve long suspected… that one of the most truly horrifying things imaginable is to be a helpless child facing imminent and senseless death.

]]> By: sterling http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3899 sterling Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:08:10 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3899 <p>Wow. Great story. Like the other two comments have already stated. The different perspective and the build up of anxiety were great. I felt myself getting really tense listening to the story.</p> Wow. Great story. Like the other two comments have already stated. The different perspective and the build up of anxiety were great. I felt myself getting really tense listening to the story.

]]> By: Anne http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3881 Anne Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:30:58 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3881 <p>I do like zombie fictions, and have been interested in writing my own for sometime but have been unsure of what can be said that hasn't already been. This story offered an excellent of example of new perspective on the concept on zombie invasion.</p> <p>Well done! Really enjoyed listening to this.</p> I do like zombie fictions, and have been interested in writing my own for sometime but have been unsure of what can be said that hasn’t already been. This story offered an excellent of example of new perspective on the concept on zombie invasion.

Well done! Really enjoyed listening to this.

]]> By: Asha http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3874 Asha Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:53:16 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2007/08/04/pseudopod-049-big-boy/#comment-3874 <p>Gripping. Thoroughly enjoyed this, through and through. The only story, so far, where I was actually forced to stop working by the continous build up of anxiety.</p> <p>Fantastic! Not a great fan of "zombie" stories, but, these (Esp. this one) are way above the curve.</p> <p>Awesome Job, Pseudopod! Can't wait for the next fix.</p> Gripping. Thoroughly enjoyed this, through and through. The only story, so far, where I was actually forced to stop working by the continous build up of anxiety.

Fantastic! Not a great fan of “zombie” stories, but, these (Esp. this one) are way above the curve.

Awesome Job, Pseudopod! Can’t wait for the next fix.

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