It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Chilling tales for dark nights. The

The Good evening listener. You're listening to Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

On tonight's edition, we invite you to leave behind your safe reality and descend with us into the frightening depths of the most terrifying imaginations, with two audio adaptations of frightening fiction about suffering states and petulant properties.

I'm your host, Steve Taylor, and tonight I'll be your guide as we traverse the dimly lit corridors

of your darkest dreams. Joining us tonight to help bring to life the frightening fiction of Mitchell Anthony Heron

and Shane H. Sellers, our voiceover talents, Kevin Barbary, and Jonathan West.

Now, get your ticket ready.

Take your seat in our Theater of the minds and brace yourself.

It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Our first tale this evening is written by Mitchell Anthony Heron and performed by Kevin Barbary.

In it, we meet a man who is drawn to ease his constant suffering of tooth pain by removing them by any means necessary. Now, without further ado,

I present to you, lost false teeth. Murray has a difficult time concentrating with that low humming sound.

The sudden shift of the air conditioner coming on in the dead of summer, perks up his hearing.

The lights bother his vision.

Fluorescent lights have always had this effect on him.

Lately though, the piercing glare has been amplified. A dull, throbbing pain made its presence known in the very back of his molars. He desperately wanted to chew on a carrot.

Sometimes this helped settle the problem. The pain had become a constant in Marie's day.

It didn't matter what medication he took for it.

The pain in his teeth grew day by day.

It was never the same tooth twice.

He thought it could be the gums, but he wasn't 100% sure.

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