Dead Air

Dead Air

by James W Pickett

Night after night, radio host Bastian Rowe sits alone in the ninth-floor broadcast booth of WHKN, guiding insomniacs through the dead hours with his midnight program, Midnight Echoes. Hidden behind glass, surrounded by static, rain, and silence, the booth is the one place where the past can’t reach him.

Until a voice calls in.

A voice speaking through a line that should no longer exist.

It knows about October 14th, 2014—the night an experimental transmission at the station ended in disaster. The night records disappeared. The night five pages were torn from the archives. The night Bastian lost part of his memory.

As anonymous broadcasts begin bleeding into the signal and long-buried secrets rise from the station’s underground archives, Bastian is forced to confront the truth buried beneath a decade of static, missing time, and carefully maintained silence.

Because some signals never die.

And some voices were never meant to return.

Short Summary

A sleepless late-night radio host receives a call on a dead engineering line from someone who knows the details of a forgotten experiment that destroyed his past. Trapped inside an aging broadcast tower as strange transmissions invade the airwaves, he must uncover what happened ten years earlier—before the signal finds him first.