The Station is an audio fiction series from Midnight Signals. This is Part 6 of 6.
On the night of the spring equinox, as the last tower is finished and the Silencers wait at the foot of the ridge with their fuel, Nora Vance threads the reel marked Complete and unwraps her ears. What she finds on the other side is vast, and old, and patient, and it is not what Walter Ames believed. To save the people on the ridge, Cass among them, she has to see it for what it really is before she forgets her own name, and reach the one person who knows how to make the world stop listening. And the story isn't over when the towers go dark. The finale of The Station.
Midnight Signals returns November 23 with Season 3: Transmissions.
Listen to Part 6: https://midnightsignals.net/podcast/s/midnightsignals/the_station_part_6_the_answer
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 Last Night on Copper Ridge
4:21 Nora Listens to the Signal
6:38 A Voice Beyond the Sky
8:00 Nora Remembers Who She Is
9:58 The Signal’s True Purpose
11:42 Eli’s Final Act
14:09 The Towers Fall Silent
15:01 The Ridge Wakes
17:12 A World Begins to Heal
18:58 The First Song
20:10 Is Something Still Listening?
21:34 The Story Behind the Signal
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.
Video visuals use real public domain and Creative Commons licensed photos (credited below) and generated radio graphics. No AI images.
Thumbnail photo: 'Radio Tower Long Exposure' by Harloh Massey, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) cropped and color graded.
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Enjoying the night sky, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park from Ye..., Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=50246903
KGO-AM transmission towers SF Bay, Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=76104549
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Milky Way over the Swedish-ESO Submillimetre..., ESO/P. Horálek, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=170570581
Night Sky from Hawai‘i and Chile (iotw2225c), NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ P. Horálek (Ins..., CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=134264847
Cracked concrete floor in Brastad, W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=129058221
Dülmen, St.-Viktor-Kirche, Innenansicht -- 20..., Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=93725000
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Green Bank 300ft collapsed telescope, NRAO/AUI/NSF, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=96329204
40m China Argentina Radio Telescope's dish, Chimangolatino, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=179033037
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Canandaigua New York lattice radio tower sect..., Daniel Christensen, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=54710869
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Radio WWOZ Studios New Orleans June 2021 - Co..., Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=107092474
Mt Pleasant Radio Telescope 2023, Paris Buttfield-Addison, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=149781205
USS Mitscher (DDG 57) lights up its mast duri..., Official U.S. Navy Page from Unit..., Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=54081567
Frastanz-ORS-Sender-Feldkircher hut-01ASD, Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=119480319
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