June 22, 2025 · 16 min

106.2 Yellow Tape

Mourning the loss of their close friend, Elle and Lionel come home to watch a mysterious yellow tape that was bequeathed to them in their friend’s will. But by the end of the tape, the couple wish it had never come to them.

Written by Xavier Garcia (twitter.com/xavier_agarcia)

Narrated and produced by James Barnett (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)

With music by North Without End (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/north-without-end/)

And Myuu (https://www.thedarkpiano.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org and Ghosthack.de

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Xavier Garcia is a writer/editor from Toronto, Canada. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies published by Fugitives & Futurists, Cold Signal, hex, Apocalypse Confidential, Cursed Morsels, Filthy Loot, and others. You can find him walking the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, or at twitter.com/xavier_agarcia.

James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast and After The Gloaming. Search for them wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.JamesBarnettCreative.com

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