Original songs, cut for the show
Baritone country and Southern Gothic folk, written for the station and its people. Two on the shelf, more coming.
October 1976 — still October 1976
The Midnight
Holler
Broadcasting so the dark stays out there. Don't follow the tower light.
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EP 007
Winter burn
A musher runs the Farewell Burn with a dead lead dog on his conscience and something keeping pace off the trail.
EP 005
The preacher on the dial
A joy ride in a dead man's truck, and a sermon coming through on a frequency no station is licensed to use.
EP 011
The man in Lookout 43
A burned-out wildland firefighter takes a fire lookout for the season and makes a friend on the radio who has been dead since 1967.
EP 010
When I forget
A grandson watches his grandmother's memory go and finds out where it has been going.
EP 009
The last bell of Bellerose Hollow
The letters of a circuit preacher who inherited a failing church bell and the reason it had to be rung.
EP 002*
Nine gone into the mountain
Nine hikers cut their way out of a tent from the inside and walked barefoot into thirty below.
EP 003*
What follows you home
A DNR ranger works a missing-persons case along the Superior shoreline and is told, plainly and early, to stop saying the name.
EP 004*
The Okefenokee tape
Four days into a paddle trip, the recorder keeps running after everyone has stopped talking.
EP 012
The shape under the hide
The generators are dying and something has finally started coming inside. Jonah's last story before the tower goes dark: a taxidermist, a buck that doesn't fit its own shape, and a form that's learning how to.
EP 006
I saw something while storm chasing
A storm chaser filming a tornado outbreak outside a forgotten Oklahoma town catches something on camera that should not exist — something pale that follows disaster and feeds on the chaos.
EP 008
The old well
On two hundred acres of family land, a hunter follows a wounded buck back to a decaying cabin and the abandoned well beneath it that should have stayed buried.
TAPE MT-001
Missing tape 001 — Marianne interrupts the broadcast
A voice Jonah never expected to hear again comes through mid-broadcast during Broadcast 005: Marianne, the woman he loved and lost.
TAPE MT-002
Missing tape 002 — Jonah answers Mike's question
Before Broadcast 008, Jonah explains how he found the tower — then the broadcast is interrupted by footsteps on the station roof.
TAPE MT-003
Missing tape 003 — Marianne tells Jonah the truth
Calling from beneath the station, Marianne reminds Jonah of promises he made — and reveals he may not remember the truth about how she died.
TAPE MT-004
Missing tape 004 — from Broadcast 012
A recovered fragment from the night the station went quiet: a message from Jonah, a song, and gaps in the tape that cannot be accounted for.
Static. Nothing logged on this frequency — drag the needle to a marked station.
Field guide
What's out there, and what the old families called it
Every occupant, place, and warning pulled out of the broadcasts, cross-referenced to the tape it came from.
Place
The Holler
Every forgotten backroad in the country, folded into one place.
RuleDead air
The only rule the station has, and the reason Jonah has not slept since October.
OccupantThe Weaver
Something in the cut above the orchard that takes memory and gives back peace.
OccupantThe Keelut
A hairless black dog that leaves no tracks, out on the burn.
WarningThe tower light
A red beacon out where there is no tower on any map.
PersonThe man before
Elias, or Hollis, or Raymond Bell — the operator who set the station to accept a replacement.
Station music
Studio B
The door Jonah didn't install
There's a second studio at this station. It's bolted from his side. It goes on the air by itself about twice a year.
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