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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Eighteen

18 October 2025 by Melissa

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In a Houston hospital full of glass, a nurse discovers that not every reflection wears his face.

✨ Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.

🎧 Listen now, if you dare.
#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright

 

Episode Cast:

Mark, the Encaffeinated One 

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Eighteen

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Seventeen

17 October 2025 by Melissa

Day Seventeen

 

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Description:

A teenage dare turns darker when a reflection refuses to play along. Some mirrors don’t like games.

✨ Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.

Episode Cast:

Nuchtchas

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Seventeen

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Sixteen

16 October 2025 by Melissa

Day 016

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Description:

October 16th

You’ve been pretending this is coincidence. Stress, tricks of the light, too much coffee, not enough sleep. You stack excuses like sandbags. You pray they’ll hold.

✨ Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.

Episode Cast:

Melissa A. Bartell 

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Sixteen

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Fifteen

15 October 2025 by Melissa

Day 015

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Description:

Mirror Mirror: Day Fifteen – The Driver takes the wheel out of Omaha, where one wrong glance could steer you straight into another self.

🎧 Mirror Mirror is a 31-day audio fiction cycle running through October — one haunting story every day from the world beyond the glass.

✨ Subscribe so you don’t miss the next voice caught in the glass.

Episode Cast:

Clay Robeson 

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Eight

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Fourteen

14 October 2025 by Melissa

Day 014

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Description:

Outside time. October fourteenth.
They’ve been watching. Learning. Collecting every tilt of your head and half-formed word, waiting for the moment to step forward.

Mirror Mirror: Day Fourteen is a reminder — the reflections were never background. They’ve simply been rehearsing.

🎧 Mirror Mirror is a 31-day audio fiction cycle running through October — one haunting voice each day, whispering from the world beyond the glass.

#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright #HauntedVoices

 

Episode Cast:

Melissa A. Bartell

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Fourteen

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
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  • Email: missmelysse@gmail.com
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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Thirteen

13 October 2025 by Melissa

Day 013

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Description:

She makes people shine for the camera — but lately, the mirrors love them too much.

Mirror Mirror: Day Thirteen , featuring Nuchtchas, steps into the bright lights of Los Angeles, where reflection becomes obsession.

🎧 Mirror Mirror is a 31-day October audio fiction cycle — one story, one voice, one reflection each day.
#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright

 

Episode Cast:

Nuchtchas

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Thirteen

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
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  • Email: missmelysse@gmail.com
  • Or, leave a comment on this page.

 

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve

12 October 2025 by Melissa

Day 12

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Description:

A midnight call. A broken window. An empty store.
And in the corner mirror — a reflection that smiles first.

Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve – The Officer continues the 31-day October cycle, where every surface might be watching back.

🎧 Listen now, if you dare.
#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright

 

Episode Cast:

Mark, the Encaffeinated One 

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
  • Facebook: MissMelysse
  • Instagram: @Melysse
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  • Email: missmelysse@gmail.com
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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Eleven

11 October 2025 by Melissa

Mirror Mirror Day Eleven

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Description:

Actors live in mirrors. Dressing rooms, quick changes, endless makeup checks — the glass becomes a friend, until it smiles without you.

Day Eleven of Mirror Mirror, featuring Thomas Jancis, steps onto the stage where the reflection won’t stay in character.

🎧 Mirror Mirror is a 31-day audio fiction cycle for October — one haunting voice each day.

 

Episode Cast:

Thomas Jancis

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Eleven

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Ten

10 October 2025 by Melissa

 

Mirror Mirror - Day 10

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Description:

Mirror Mirror: Day Ten – Those Behind the Glass
Outside time. October tenth.
The reflections speak again — not from one mirror, but from every surface that’s ever held your image. What if you were never the original? What if every glance you’ve ever given the glass has been one more offering?

Mirror Mirror is a 31-day audio fiction cycle unfolding through October — one voice, one story, one reflection each day. Listen, if you dare, to what waits behind the glass.

 

Episode Cast:

Melissa A. Bartell

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Ten 

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
  • Facebook: MissMelysse
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  • Email: missmelysse@gmail.com
  • Or, leave a comment on this page.

 

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Nine

9 October 2025 by Melissa

Mirror Mirror - Day 9

 

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Description:

In Des Moines, a mother tries to comfort her daughter, who insists the girl in the bathroom mirror isn’t her reflection—but someone else who already knows her name. What begins as a child’s eerie game turns into something far more unsettling, as laughter echoes from behind the glass.

✨ Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.

Episode Cast:

Nuchtchas

Links and References

Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Nine

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat

Contact:

  • BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social
  • Facebook: MissMelysse
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  • Email: missmelysse@gmail.com
  • Or, leave a comment on this page.

 

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