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It's only a story.

Welcome to season 6, Episode 9. I'm your host, Eric Peabody, and I'm so excited to be here

that I could scream. This evening brings us double trouble, with two stories from author's

cryptic wander and PD Williams. You're listening to the standard edition of this program.

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chilling tales for Dark Knights. Thank you for your support. Now, allow me to escort you to a place

where the sun dies and nightmares come to life. Welcome listener to the horror hill. You haven't

found the darkness. The darkness has found you.

And with that out of the way, without further ado, from author cryptic wander, I give you

and the wind will blow. The town was nicknamed the Dust Bowl. It wasn't because of any recent

famine, at least none that Ralph could remember. There were no shortages of jobs, and there

certainly wasn't a shortage of work around town. Was it the dust? It could be, but it wasn't likely.

Corn grew in large fields, in all the places that the grass didn't, and that was everywhere.

The wind did howl more often than not, and there weren't too many trees around to block it off,

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