uglycoyote0
In a quiet town left behind by time, the radios stopped working years ago.
But something is still broadcasting.
It's 1994. Iver Wynn works at a dying VHS rental shop, spending his days rewinding tapes and trying not to think about the past. His best friend, Sable, believes there's a pattern in the silence-strange signals, vanishing pets, things no one talks about anymore.
Then a cassette shows up. No label. No sender.
Just static. And something else underneath it.
As they search for answers in dusty basements, half-erased archives, and the ruins of a forgotten station, the town begins to shift in quiet, unnatural ways. And the more they listen, the harder it gets to turn the volume down.
Because some signals never fade.
And some silences weren't meant to be broken.
Character descriptions:
Iver Wynn: (23) Quiet, observant, loyal. Used to dream of leaving town. Works at a VHS rental store. Has a deep fear of losing control. Carries around cassette tapes his dad left behind after dying mysteriously.
Sable Marrow: (22) Iver's best friend since they were kids. Loud, impulsive, artistic. Used to graffiti abandoned buildings with conspiracy messages. She believes the radio is still broadcasting to certain people.
Rook Elias: New guy in town. Ex-military. Mysterious. Probably knows too much.
Tess Rowen: Paranoid, keeps journals full of coded notes. Thinks their town was a government experiment since the 80s.