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Episode 4 — The Ashes of Echoes Dear Listener, Nothing’s ever truly gone, and nothing gained nor lost. It just transforms, unnoticed… forgotten… ’til it’s not. Like sickness, or a story, or a lifetime, or a plot. — Author Unknown When control of the experiment begins to slip, Kellor Voss commits to a drastic system reset and executes it with precision. The reset fails, changing the stakes in ways no one could have anticipated. At the same time, Sara’s work begins to cross from theory into the physical world, and the Stranger’s repeated deaths no longer follow a reliable path. For a full transcript of this episode, visit VoiceoverNerd.com.

“Faith festers when it feeds on the faithful.”— Brother Halvor From the Stitched Chronicles of Gratch Hollow. Ilra Wint records a warning she was taught long before she understood it — followed by two letters that explain why she keeps it. A son writes with calm conviction about the Constant, about stillness, about sacrifice.A father answers with what those words actually cost. This is a short archival fragment from What the Pig Promised:belief as it sounds, and belief as it behaves. Listener discretion advised. (Note to listeners, despite it's placement, this is a fictional work, and not a religious podcast)

The third stitch in the patchwork of Gratch Hollow.If you’re enjoying this, please follow and share. Sister Tephra runs to calculate, and calculates to forget.What’s the solution, and what do stars in a starless sky have to do with it? Is the Big Dipper really a pig? What’s the connection between pigs, filth, variables, and constants? It’s all tied together. Also… someone’s got a cruuuush. 🎧 Full transcript & extras:VoiceoverNerd.com/wtpp —Introducing Shelly Fear as Sister Tephra voiceoverslayer.com Written, performed, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice.Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025.VoiceoverNerd.com

Fourteen years after his death, Mareen visits Richard's grave to tell him more about Sara, the girl who became her daughter. About Sara's curiosity. Her cats. Her math. The way she sees things. But lately, something has changed. And Mareen isn't sure what it means. A companion to Episode 2. 🎧 Full transcript & extras: ⁠VoiceoverNerd.com/wtpp⁠ Follow What the Pig Promised for new episodes. Mareen is voiced by Shelly Fear voiceoverslayer.com Written and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice. Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025 . ⁠VoiceoverNerd.com

A loose page in a book about constellations—though no one here has ever seen one—hand-printed by a local living legend: the girl who stayed. A Stranger waking to an axe to the skull again—no answers, but he might be falling in love... or something like it. A constellation tale of seven vengeful children who mock a fallen warrior forever. A pig-man waiting with blankets and food, just in case someone needs comfort like he did. A young widow opening her door to a child with no past. And Sara beginning to write herself into the sky. Follow What the Pig Promised for new episodes. 🎧 Full transcript & extras: VoiceoverNerd.com/wtpp — Written, performed, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice. Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025. VoiceoverNerd.com

An audio restoration of a surviving fragment from the pre-divergence era: one of Ilra Wint’s stitched chronicles, rescued from a fragile and ancient page. This entry, simply titled The Moment, records the earliest known account of the event that shaped Gratch Hollow’s fate — as preserved, interpreted, and catalogued long after Ilra’s time. Not required listening before Episode 2, but intended to deepen your understanding of what Ilra believed was worth writing down. Follow What the Pig Promised for new episodes. 🎧 Full transcript & extras: VoiceoverNerd.com/wtpp Written, performed, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice.Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025.VoiceoverNerd.com

Jon’s story survives only in fragments—stitched together across time, rumor, and Ilra Wint’s careful hand.He was not born in Gratch Hollow, yet he became one of its quiet strengths: barefoot in chapel gardens, humming as he worked, tending cats and kindness with equal devotion. This episode draws from Ilra’s restored chronicles:a portrait commissioned so he’d remember he was handsome,a widow who made room in her grief for another child,and the first threads tying Jon and Sara together long before the world began to fracture. A companion to Episode 1, preserving the piece of the story that belonged to him. Follow What the Pig Promised for new episodes. 🎧 Full transcript & extras: VoiceoverNerd.com/wtpp Written, performed, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice.Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025.VoiceoverNerd.com

If you like this story, please help me gain momentium with a share. Thanks. You're amazing. A character-driven mystery stitched from sci-fi, constellation folklore, and time loops—handcrafted by Voiceover Nerd Productions.Listen all the way through, then claim your favorite — the poll waits at the end, if you are on Spotify. (Don’t let Cultist #4 win.) A village with no stars in the sky.A stranger who keeps dying.A pig-man who only wants to help.And a death cult that won’t stay buried. In Gratch Hollow, the village seamstress records stories of constellations that exist everywhere but here. A warrior wakes to the same brutal moment again and again, trapped in a loop he can’t escape. And a young scientist named Sara studies equations that could rewrite time—until something keeps pulling them all back to the morning everything burned. When the cult strikes at dawn, Sara’s mentor fights back with impossible precision. Jon, a gentle pig-man cast out by his warrior race, offers comfort in the chaos. And the stranger flickers in and out of existence, his sword already drawn before his eyes open. Some things repeat.Some things remember.And the truth never stays the same. Written, narrated, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice.A Voiceover Nerd production. For transcripts, constellation charts, and more:voiceovernerd.com/wtpp Follow What the Pig Promised for new episodes.Rate and review and follow to help others find the story. Content note: This episode includes depictions of violence and death. 🎧 Full transcript & extras: VoiceoverNerd.com/wtpp — Written, performed, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice. Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025. VoiceoverNerd.com