The Station is an audio fiction series from Midnight Signals. This is Part 3 of 6.
Eleven seconds of television becomes millions of uploads, and the signal begins assembling itself, one humming voice at a time. At 2:19 a.m. on the first of August, the emergency alert system sounds on two hundred million phones. Governments order the world to go silent, and a world that cannot broadcast discovers it cannot hold itself together. Nora leaves her father behind and flees toward the coast of Maine with Cass and her aunt Ruth, who has been deaf since birth and is the only one of them the signal cannot reach. A town's storm siren nearly takes Nora and Cass both. And the last shortwave broadcast from the BBC goes off the air for good.
Listen to Part 3: https://midnightsignals.net/podcast/s/midnightsignals/the_station_part_3_the_fall
Start with Part 1: https://midnightsignals.net/podcast/s/midnightsignals/the_station_part_1_do_not_listen
More from Midnight Signals: https://midnightsignals.net/
Chapters
0:00 The Signal Awakens
1:21 Eleven Seconds Go Viral
4:17 Nora’s Father Goes Quiet
5:34 The Deaf Can’t Hear It
7:54 A World Forced Into Silence
9:05 The Signal Finds New Voices
12:48 The World Comes Apart
13:56 Seeking Silence on the Islands
15:00 The Last Broadcast
16:27 The Alarm That Made Everyone Listen
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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Alicia, Atlantic Coast Near Bass Harbor Head..., Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=113260118
Fisherman Huts at Prince's Point, Orr's Islan..., Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=42113056
Aarhus skyline with Domkirke cathedral spire..., Ciara Ní Riain, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=178155723
Amboy (California, USA), Hist. Route 66 -- 20..., Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=30517858
Radio Tower from Top of Cape Hatteras Light S..., Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=86896455
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(20260318) BER Airport Terminal 1, empty due..., Roy Zuo, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=192872413
Curtain antenna at Hoerby shortwave station, Original work: Mikeinc Derivative..., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=25791521
Old Gas Station Hamburg Grindel, Capecross, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=82519910
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