
At 16, I Wrote A Sci-Fi That Is Mostly About Giant Phallic Monsters
Character Development: A Comedy Podcast Where Actors Perform My Cringiest Old StoriesShow Notes
My teenage sci-fi horror story has three pages of lore, space elves who crouch-walk everywhere, and giants described in a deeply unfortunate way. Now I’m reading it out loud.
Voice actor Chris Harris-Beechy joins me from inside my TV to roast “Nocturne,” a handwritten story from 2007 that was never meant to be seen again.
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0:00 Welcome to Character Development
1:58 Meet Nocturn, written at 16
4:17 Three pages of lore
8:56 Space smurfs and the one woman
11:29 My handwriting looks like spiders
14:01 Chapter 1: Night watch
17:01 The double crouch
23:02 Don't put mystery metal in your ear
29:13 Chapter 2: Nobody talks
31:03 Ten feet of night vision
43:37 The mating grounds
46:38 What becoming a dad changed
52:30 Chapter 3: The giant
56:06 Edging the penis giant
1:01:58 Final verdict
1:05:36 What's coming next
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