# Spotting Stories with Hidden Poison | (Ep. 195)

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Podcast: [Stories Are Soul Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-are-soul-food-1366275)
Published: 2025-09-08T12:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . How do you identify stories with poison in them? They never say "TAKE THIS POISON." They always coat it in chocolate first... - "Make Me Famous" pitch reviews segment continues with "The Ghost Train". Maybe this is the episode wherein Nate finally likes a pitch. - Then the guys turn to stories that start out sweet but conceal poison in the end. - Harry Potter and The Hunger Games both start a story with something admirable (the underdog, self-sacrifice). That's the chocolate. - But once you like the chocolate, an author *can make you eat anything after that... even poison (self-pity, dissatisfaction, ungratefulness, victimhood mentality). - To demonstrate how a true underdog story works, Nate reframes the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors (not what that is).

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