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.

So, you may have noticed that we put an adult advisory warning on this episode.

Truth be told, being a horror-themed podcast, the majority of our content is, to varying degrees, worthy

of some manner of warning. However, we assume that you know what you're signing on for when you

select to listen to a show, like this, and save our warnings for when we feature a tale that is particularly sexually explicit or in some other manner alarming.

And that brings us to the garden.

Now this one falls into the sexually explicit, and alarming camp for that matter. Well, it's not all that

sexually explicit. I mean, it's no alchemical wedding, episode 68, if you're in the mood,

as it were, but it might be a little naughty for the young, and certainly triggering, for want of a better term, in more

ways than one.

So, you have been warned.

Oh, I hasten to add that we wouldn't want this warning to put off any of our stout of heart, age-appropriate listeners,

as this mean little story really is.

Well, horrific.

And isn't that what we're all here for?

So, I guess we'd better get to it and see what all the fuss is about.

Nocturnal Transmissions is proud to present the Garden by Dark Roads.

Her departure had been quick and certain.

A slammed door and a wedding band he'd find on their dresser several

days after she'd gone. It'd asked himself over and over when their love had turned to contempt,

but could never pinpoint an exact moment. It was a slowly manifesting cancer, an invisible rot that had set in and corroded the

foundation of their once-promising relationship, reducing everything that brought them together

...