The Station is an audio fiction series from Midnight Signals. This is Part 4 of 6.
On Gannet Rock, eleven miles off the coast of Maine, four hundred survivors live by rules written on a sheet of plywood: no speakers, no humming, no singing, and anyone who begins to change will be cared for, not cast out. Ruth teaches the island to sign. Then a storm washes a working radio ashore, a boy finds it, and the island votes on whether its last rule will hold. Dr. Alice Brenner arrives from Harlow with notebooks full of hearts beating in unison, and red lights begin to blink on towers across the water. An old woman living past the lighthouse, who once worked at Site Kestrel, finally tells Nora what the station heard in 1977. And on Christmas Eve, Cass takes a boat to the mainland.
Listen to Part 4: https://midnightsignals.net/podcast/s/midnightsignals/the_station_part_4_the_quiet
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 Island Where Silence Saves
2:32 Learning to Speak Without Sound
4:14 The Tone Beneath the Quiet
6:07 A Rule Put to the Vote
7:37 The Doctor’s Warning
10:17 A Red Light Across the Water
11:13 The Island’s Longest Secret
13:13 What Site Kestrel Heard
15:02 The Answer Beneath the Station
16:26 Do Not 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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