# S10 Ep21: S10E21 - "The Black Pill" - Drew Blood's Dark Tales Podcast

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Podcast: [Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/drew-blood-s-dark-tales-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-podcast-4347663)
Published: 2026-05-23T01:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2543

## Resource

This week on Drew Blood's Dark Tales , author Aaron Shotwell invites listeners into a waking nightmare where sleep becomes escape, time becomes meaningless, and one mysterious black pill changes everything. What begins as a desperate attempt to disappear from reality spirals into a vision of devastation so vivid, so disturbingly intimate, that it refuses to fade upon waking. As ruined cities, hollow-eyed survivors, and impossible figures emerge from the darkness, one man is forced to confront the terrifying cost of apathy—and the unbearable question of whether the future he witnessed was ever truly a dream at all. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

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