{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Eye in My Ceiling","description":" What starts as a curiosity, a light on the bedroom ceiling that seems to have no source, heralds the appearance of a huge eye that just watches and watches. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Horror   Excerpt: I yelled out.  The hazel iris shifted toward me.  I slowly slid off the bed... dashed to the door, flung it open, and pulled it closed behind me.  Okay, okay, think. I have to\u2026 I had cried out. Someone must have heard. Someone would come knocking on my door. Normally I didn\u2019t want that. But right now, right now I might want that. I might want that.   What story or stories am I revisiting in this episode? Each Season 8 episode is a standalone story, but it\u2019s connected to or inspired by a previous story through a character, a place, an object, a concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so on. A previous story about an organ growing in the walls of someone\u2019s bedroom is \u201cChemoimagination.\u201d   Creepy coincidence?One night, after I posted this story, I\u2019d plugged in a mini-fan to charge next to my bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a glowing green eye on my ceiling. The fan had finished charging, and the indicator light happened to be facing up to the ceiling. And it happened to be the same shape and size of the eye I describe in my story. It didn\u2019t scare me. I immediately knew what I was. But I did sleepily think something akin to \u201cheh, good one.\u201d   MY FIRST BOOK (yay)Ever wonder how I\u2019ve gotten all these hundreds of stories written?  I have a method. And I talk all about it in my book called Fictioneer\u2019s Field Guide: A Game Plan for Writing Short Stories. It\u2019s now available from Amazon as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover. You can also get there from my Store page: STORYFEATHER STORE   The Store page also has sign-up forms for my two email newsletters: Storyfeather Gazette (if you\u2019d like to keep up with the fiction I create) Fictioneer\u2019s Field Guide (if you\u2019d like writing tips and guidance from me) Choose what you want. (Either way, you're choosing high jinks.)   MERCH!Interested in merch, like mugs and notebooks, featuring my artwork? Please visit my Store page for info on where you can buy: STORYFEATHER STORE   CREDITSStory: \u201cThe Eye in My Ceiling\u201d Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:  Nila L. Patel   Music: \u201cOrbs\u201d by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Intro) \u201cExperiment 7\u201d by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Outro) \u201cAbstract Vision #5\u201d by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)   Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY \u201cAbove\u201d \u201cThe 4th world\u201d \u201cExperiment 7\u201d \u201cDark wonders\u201d \u201cAbyss\u201d \u201cOrbs\u201d \u201cExperiment 6\u201d \u201cThe corner of your room\u201d \u201cWell of souls\u201d All these tracks are part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.   Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market Vocal effects created with Audacity Changes made to the musical tracks? Just cropping of some to align with my narration.   Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com     Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Central figure, a woman, her top half, seen from below at an angle. She\u2019s facing away, standing in a room where the ceiling and parts of two walls intersect at her left, around waist level. The woman wears pants and a t-shirt and her hair in a ponytail. She holds a carving knife in her right hand, held down and behind herself.  Her left hand reaches up towards a huge eye in the ceiling. Most of the iris and a small portion of the whites are visible. Eyelashes extend out at left. Watermark of \u201cStoryfeather\u201d along wall in image at left. The rectangular image is made square with top and bottom borders with blurred portions of the main image. ","author_name":"Storyfeather","author_url":"http:\/\/storyfeather.libsyn.com\/site","html":"