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Good evening. Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading the final chapters of The War of the Worlds by HG Wells.

Just a reminder that this particular story does contain things of death and may be unpleasant

to some listeners, so make sure you're comfortable with that before you continue listening.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften.

As we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 8 Dead London

After I had parted from the artilleryman, I went down the hill and by the high street

across the bridge to farm. The red weed was to mulch us at that time,

and to nearly choked the bridge roadway, but its fronds were already whiteened in patches

by the spreading disease that presently removed it so swiftly.

At the corner of the lane that runs to Patnie Bridge Station, I found a man lying.

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