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Hello and welcome to our experimental mini-season. For this five-part series you'll be joining myself and Olivia White as we delve into the experimental dark abyss of horror.

Instead of taking an extended break during the European tour, we thought we'd try out something new.

We'll be taking this mini-season in directions outside of the usual mandate of the No Sleep podcast to see what lands and what doesn't.

Some episodes of this mini-season are not for the faint of heart. Some are not for the squeamish. It's not mandatory listening.

Each episode has a theme revealed in the title. If that theme isn't for you, then please don't feel obliged to sit through it as you want a regular episode.

Not every episode will plum the darkest depths of horror, but some will. We will, as usual, provide trigger warnings for each of the stories.

But again, we stress this mini-season is experimental. There's no shame in changing the channel and adjusting your sets.

If you'd prefer to wait for service to resume as normal, then our next full season, season 14, will begin in February, and we'll see you then.

If you're still here and intend on joining us for this episode, then I'm just come back a boy. And this is The New Decade.

Greetings, sleepless. Here we are at our second episode of The New Decade.

Who knew that a mini-season put together by myself and Olivia would succeed at not destroying the entire podcast before episode two?

This episode is called Inhuman Bodies. It features two extremely different stories that revolve around tales of the flesh, both human and not so human.

There are some pretty major content warnings for this episode, so be sure to check out our trigger warnings for this one.

The second story in particular features some fairly graphic sexual content, and while it doesn't deal with sexual violence, certain aspects of the story could be especially upsetting to some.

Meanwhile, the UK leg of the European tour should be well underway by the time you hear this, so we wish the tour team well and hope things are going amazingly.

Miss you guys? As of writing this, Hassani's Kickstarter is around 50% funded and could still use some major help from us.

Hopefully by the time you hear this, it's been funded, but the link will once again be in the show notes.

We'd also really like to thank everyone who joined us for episode one.

The feedback has been extremely helpful, and the response has been overwhelming, so thank you to everyone who shown their support for this mini-series.

And now, with all that said, onto the stories.

In our first tale, we meet a woman whose experiences with breast cancer have led her to help others who might be facing the same things she did.

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