Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to Nocturnal Transmissions, the fortnightly podcast that brings you dark tales both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristen Holland.

Our featured story this week was first published in the horror anthology, Dark Places, Evil Faces, Volume 2.

All proceeds from the sale of this volume

are donated to the UK-based charity

Rethink Mental Illness

If you would like to find out more about this charity

or support them through purchasing a copy

of the Dark Place's Evil Faces anthology,

you'll find links on our website, nocturnal transmissions.com.a.u.

Under author Ryan Harville's profile on our featured author's page.

Mr. Harville's generosity of spirit has also been extended to us, gentle listeners,

as he offers up this next story for your enjoyment. What a lovely man. Or at least so we thought,

before reading this.

It would appear that Mr. Harville's altruism is reserved entirely for the real world,

with not a drop of kindness left for his poor, hapless literary creations.

Steal yourself, gentle listener, for Ryan Harvilles.

Cloud 9

From the office of Robert Floyd, MD.

Subject. Patient File, Johnston, Stephen, 0601, 619.

Gerald, here's the transcript of my initial examination of Stephen Johnston after his arrest.

I'll make sure the rest of his file

gets to you before his transfer. I want you to draw your own conclusions, so I won't say much

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