Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to Nocturnal Transmissions, the fortnightly podcast that brings you dark tales both old and new,

performed by your humble narrator, Kristen Holland.

Now, before we get to our oft-practiced indulgence of rollicking in mayhem and delighting in the misfortune of others,

which we most certainly shall be doing today, I'd like to extend a big welcome to our new Patreon subscriber acolytes.

Those delightful darklings desire us of additional dread,

whose co-conspiratorial contributions collectively contrive our dark flames.

Continuans.

Uh, oh, where was I?

Oh yes, our newest acolytes.

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Welcome, my dears, welcome.

And now, Nocturnal Transmissions is proud to present Joe Palombo's Insectiferous. It was the feeling he was really missing.

Not the actual places or the people he discovered to his surprise.

He realized after spending an hour at his high school reunion that what he

really was missing was the feeling that came when he would revisit those times in his mind.

Alvin found as he walked the floor of the Black Hollow High Gym the feeling would come but then

would drift away just to see what attempt

to capture it, like trying to catch smoke in your hand. However, sitting now in the back of Sharon's

rented Jeep and bouncing down the dark back roads of Black Lake Park, the feeling was not only returning, but was remaining.

His gaze glided through the dim interior of the vehicle, and as it did, the smoke became

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