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.

This episode's bleak offering comes to us courtesy of our old friend, P. L. McMillan.

You may remember her previous story,

That Which the Ocean Gives and Takes Away,

which we featured in June last year in our 77th episode,

entitled That Which the Ocean Gives and Takes Away Of course, gentle listener

Well, there'll be no seaside shenanigans

This time around

This tale is something

Quite different Nocturnal Transmission is something quite different.

Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present.

Godmouth by P.L. McMmillan. The first time I heard it was from a dying woman's lips. She'd been hit by a car that had been going at least double the speed limit.

The driver hadn't stopped. Instead, the car had squealed around a corner and disappeared as the woman slammed into the ground with a sickening crunch. I saw it happen, as did four other

strangers.

I ran to the woman's side as she lay dying.

I knew she had to be.

I was a nurse, and the amount of blood surrounding the woman on the pavement was gruesome.

I heard a man on his cell phone talking to the 911 dispatch.

The other strangers stood a little ways away, watching as I checked her vitals and tried to make her comfortable.

Her eyes were a beautiful shade of the palest green, reflecting the stormy sky above.

She wasn't upset or crying. I thought that she must be in shock.

Miss, an ambulance is coming, the man on the cell phone said, raising his voice to avoid coming closer.

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