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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Mythology and High School romance combine in this latest offering from Toshiya Kamei.
NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present:
PETRIFIED
[WARNING - This one contains sexual references. Nothing terribly explicit but we thought we'd warn you anyway.]
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0:00.0 | 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. |
0:29.9 | This episode, we welcome the return of that mistress of melancholy dread, Toshia Kamei. |
0:41.5 | Again with this episode, we are compelled to offer a warning that there is some adult content, |
0:49.4 | for want of a better term. Nothing as shocking as the Garden, episode 205, but still worthy of mention, |
0:59.2 | just in case sexual references make you a bit squirmy in the tummy. All right, now we have that |
1:09.2 | aside. Let's start the adventure, shall we? |
1:14.5 | Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present. |
1:21.5 | Toshia Camais, petrified. Petrified. |
1:28.3 | The recess bell triggers a deafening scraping of chairs and a thunder of footsteps. |
1:46.3 | A soft touch on my arm startles me. |
1:49.9 | I turn my head and see the new girl, Amy, with an eye, smiling at me. |
1:56.9 | She moves her mouth, but the classroom chatter drowns out her voice. |
2:02.0 | "'Come again?' I say. |
2:05.1 | Amy leans closer. Her soapy scent wafts toward me and quickens my heart. |
2:12.6 | "'Why are you wearing them inside?' she asks, pointing her chin toward the dark glasses, hiding my eyes. |
2:21.2 | "'I try to say something, but—' "'No words come out. |
2:27.3 | "'Small talk has never been my thing. |
2:29.6 | "'Other girls avoid me like I'm a witch. |
2:32.0 | "'They stopped talking to me when they learned I was the last |
2:35.3 | person to see Erica before she disappeared. Amy shrugs and joins a group of girls a few rows away. |
2:47.9 | Most girls hate wearing glasses because they make them feel ugly and unattractive, |
2:54.2 | but I wear dark glasses all the time, even indoors, |
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