The Station is an audio fiction series from Midnight Signals. This is Part 2 of 6.
Dev stops sleeping. He tells Nora the world finally makes sense, and that there is more of it, waiting to be heard. Eli goes back up the ridge alone. Then Dev slips into WHRL, Harlow's radio station, in the middle of the night, and at 6:03 the next morning the host of the morning show stops talking in the middle of the weather and begins to hum. Eleven hundred households are listening. The people who keep listening become calm, gentle, and quiet, and the county health officer can find nothing wrong with them. By Sunday, a live news report from Main Street has carried eleven seconds of it to half a million homes.
Listen to Part 2: https://midnightsignals.net/podcast/s/midnightsignals/the_station_part_2_the_town
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Chapters
0:00 The Morning Show Falls Silent
1:14 The Boy Who Kept Listening
3:33 A Signal Beneath the Static
4:39 Dev Enters the Station
6:56 Harlow Hears the Hum
10:31 The Friends Raise the Alarm
11:57 The Signal Reaches Beyond Harlow
13:42 The Cruel Calm of the Signal
14:32 Every Speaker Becomes a Door
A Midnight Signals Story. A work of fiction.
Midnight Signals blends history, folklore, and dramatized storytelling. Some names, places, and events are fictionalized or illustrative. Characters are fictional, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
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Radio studio of WBNI, showing console, Robert E. Nylund Sallyrob, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=9016262
WLS (AM) transmitter building, Tdl1060, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=87637616
West Main Street, Hillsborough, NH at Night, Maiyana C., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=95744538
Microwave tower - Wrights Hill 02, Tony Wills, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=7801144
Streetlights illuminating fog on a residentia..., Spritegrape, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=181205997
Old Zenith Radio receiver 01, chia ying Yang, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=5817486
Pole loudspeaker, Maria Ellend, Austria, 25 D..., Nurken, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=180744214
GMA News satellite truck (Mendiola, Manila)(2..., Patrick Roque, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=81561509
Small-Town Drive, Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeas..., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=61602949
Magical night at a farmhouse in Satul Bucovin..., VladPaul74, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=19524828
Empire Diner Interior, Eden, Janine and Jim from New Yor..., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=95658039
Mountain View Cemetery, foggy (3), Colin Knowles, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=81359409
Courthouse in Bellefonte, Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=2049100
Old television set at the Finnish Architectur..., JIP, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=133760891
Fog and Street lights in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Harald Hoyer from Schwerin, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24325477
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