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Episode – 63 The Will Whisperers…

Jun 1, 2025

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Masters of the Side Chat, Destroyers of Transparency. Every family has them. They don’t shout. They don’t slam doors. They don’t leave paper trails. They just whisper… and somehow, everything tilts their way. Meet the Will Whisperers: The quietly powerful manipulators of inheritance drama. Their Natural Habitat: Hallway corners during wakes. Kitchens where the tea’s…

Darcifer’s Dispatch…

May 31, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

(Transmitted via paw prints in the afterlife mud) ‘Oi, you. Yeah, you – the one quietly unraveling because someone moved a half-dead bookcase and a rusted hunk of metal like they were state secrets. Sit your bones down. We need to talk.‘ Look, I’m not saying I was a saint in fur – I had…

Episode 62 – Friday Night Lights… and Gaslights…

May 31, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Kin and Consequenes

Under the Will, Over the Drama – A Bulky Tale… Once upon a Friday night, in the land of late-night chipper runs and family duty rotas, my other brother Saul was on his usual noble quest: Friday Night with Dad. He arrived armed with battered sausages, curry chips and a salt-and-vinegar sword – a true…

Aunty Fan’s Message from Beyond…

May 29, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

Aunty Fan’s Message from Beyond: A Hyena by Any Other Name… Well now… would you look at this carry-on. Me, Aunty Fan, finally getting a word in from the other side. You didn’t think I was going to sit up here quietly, watching all this tomfoolery unfold without putting my two cents in, did you?…

Message from Granny Frass: ‘On Receipts, Bullies and Backstabbers in Bad Shoes..

May 28, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

Well now… I’ll tell ya, sweetheart – that message you got about the grocery money? That weren’t about food. That weren’t about accountability. That was a cheap little power play dressed up in Sunday manners. A quiet landmine slipped in where no one else could see it, just to remind you who they think is…

A Message from Percival to Darcifer (and the Rest of You Rabble)..

May 27, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

Ah, Darcifer, my favorite brooding misfit, officially one of us on this side of the veil. You didn’t honestly think you could slip through without me noticing, did you? Tch. You should’ve known better. A cat like me never truly leaves. I just trade up for a better view. And let me tell you, the…

Granny Frass’s Daily Dose..

May 26, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

A Visit from Granny Frass – And Who the Hell Took My Waterford? Well now… I didn’t think I’d have to be back so soon but here I am, barely one life into my eternal rest and already I’ve got to haunt the living with a bit of sense. Honestly, you’d think after all these…

For once, Granny Frass has to move over because this one’s for Kritter…

May 25, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

For once, Granny Frass had to move over, because this one’s for Kritter – the family I chose, the sister the universe sent me and the loudest laugh in my darkest days… This one is from this side… I know, I know – Granny Frass has been hogging the limelight in Messages from Beyond. She’s…

Confessions of a Failed Nurse and Future Rebel…

May 25, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Life

The Ones Who Didn’t Fit the Box… When I was growing up in Ireland and I won’t say how many years ago because some of you might faint, it was a very different world to the one we’re in now. Back then, every family had a few solid ambitions for their children. You didn’t need…

A Message from Darcifer…

May 23, 2025

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Mae Faurel

in Messages From Beyond

A Message from Darcifer: The Spanish-Speaking Black Lab Beyond the Veil Well, well, well… look who’s finally decided to remember me. It’s about time. For those of you new to this strange little corner of the afterlife, allow me to introduce myself. Name’s Darcifer. Some folks called me Darcee but let’s be honest I’ve always…

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