Campfire Radio Theater · Haunted Air Audio

Night Delivery

September 20, 2015·38 min·2 clips

Dustin discovers Sasha's contract with the devil is signed in blood, and he must pay a terrible price to free her.

The fire is already lit. The opening stays with vinyl, musty sleeves, and the kind of sweet memory that seems ready to bite. Then the warning comes in. This calls itself a love story, but it tells the listener not to get too comfortable with that idea. The job is ordinary enough at first. A recent college graduate remembers a summer in the mid-80s, when adulthood was closing in and radio still smelled like a real place. WHLL talks big, spins records, pushes Radioactive Rejects, and tries to make loneliness sound like part of the job. Then she arrives, soaked from the rain. She says someone is following her, and suddenly the weather is not the only thing pressing against the control room. The threat has a name without quite becoming clear. Her boss at the record company does not trust her, she says, because their old fling has turned into jealousy. She refuses the police. That refusal hangs there, leaving the radio worker to answer with coffee, cold pizza, and jokes that are sweeter than they are smart. He wants to play the gallant guy, but he keeps showing how little he understands. The booth gets intimate fast. She asks about the control room, and he admits this was not the dream, only where he ended up. Then the past starts leaking. The closing credits slip into loose station chatter, record company jokes, and a vacant lot that should not fit her story. Time has gone wrong. The romance was bait. What is left is a night delivery from somewhere already abandoned, carried on records, rain, and a voice that should not still be calling.

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A moody radio-booth love story that lets atmosphere and dialogue do most of the work.

Night Delivery turns a summer radio shift into a moody, tragic love story: a young DJ at WHLL meets a drenched woman in a red dress who says her jealous boss is following her.

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You want a neon-lit radio booth story where the flirtation is carrying a bad shadow.

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