It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

The true tale is from Dark Nine's.

Good evening, listener. You're listening to chilling tales for Dark Knights.

On tonight's edition, we invite you to leave behind your safe reality and descend with us into the frightening depths of the most terrifying imaginations with two audio adaptations of frightening fiction.

About wretched rebirth and consuming coping mechanisms.

I'm your host, Steve Taylor, and tonight I'll be your guide as we traverse the dimly lit corridors of your darkest dreams.

Joining us tonight to help bring to life the frightening fiction of Matt Martinek and DB Anthony, our voice-tallant Nick Goroff and Nate Dufort.

Now, get your ticket ready. Take your seat in our theater of the minds and brace yourself.

It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Our first tale this evening is written by Matt Martinek and is performed by Nick Goroff.

Now, without further ado, I present to you the butterfly of Prometheus.

The ability to better oneself was always amazed me to take a piece of clay and to mold it into something better,

tell the ugly in your trembling hands and form the mess into magnificence.

There is something to be said for such a feat.

After all, progress is important.

The sameness is boring.

My transformation began around age 13, as the acne multiplied on my face and back,

and the testosterone began to leak from every pore.

The live wire of puberty was trying to kill me, bit by bit.

No, I wasn't going to give up without a fight.

And so, I forced a different kind of change, and one that was dependent not upon nature itself but upon willpower alone.

The veins began to show.

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