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Ten-year-old Theo inherits a dusty radio that picks up a baseball game his grandfather listened to as a boy — and the game isn't over yet.

When a booking error forces bitter literary rivals Meera and Callum to share a cabin for a two-week writing retreat, the only thing they agree on is that this will be a disaster.

A ham radio operator in the Colorado high country picks up a distress call from a cabin that burned down in 1974.

A grandmother and granddaughter wade into a drought-low river to find the town that was flooded when the dam went in.

Short poems about cooking for one, cooking for two, and the smoke alarm that has opinions about both.

A recommendation engine that refuses to lie gets a performance review from the people who built it.

Every Tuesday at 2 a.m., the same caller phones into a tiny coastal radio show and describes the ocean floor in perfect detail. Tonight, she describes the host.

Drill technician Ana Ruiz has eight months left on her contract at Thera Station, the loneliest posting in the solar system. Then the hydrophones pick up a pattern — prime numbers, tapped from beneath the ice.

When her father's heart gives out during the worst storm of the decade, sixteen-year-old Wren is the only one left to keep the Cape Halloran light burning — and the only one who knows what the light is really for.