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The Birdhouse at the End of Sycamore Lane
Season 1 Episode 13
It was the summer of the cicada swarm, the one that came seventeen years early. Luna remembers the old man on Sycamore Lane who built birdhouses — hu…
2 months ago
The Icehouse Off Route 9 at Twenty Below
Season 1 Episode 12
January 1998 in the small town of Greenhollow, Vermont. The coldest night in thirty years. Luna's uncle had a side job at the old icehouse on the edg…
2 months ago
The Man Who Tended the Light at Banner Elk
Season 1 Episode 11
Luna recounts a winter spent in a borrowed cabin near Banner Elk, North Carolina, where a solitary neighbor tended a kerosene lamp on a hillside ever…
2 months ago
The Last Summer at Camp Gilead
Season 1 Episode 10
In the summer of 1987, Luna spent two weeks as a counselor at Camp Gilead, a sleepy overnight camp tucked into the pine woods of northern Minnesota. …
2 months ago
The Season of the Paper Moon at Big Cypress Lodge
Season 1 Episode 9
Luna recalls a summer job at Big Cypress Lodge, a decaying resort town in the Florida Panhandle, where the full moon hung for three weeks in 1997. It…
2 months ago
The Hollow That Sang at Midnight
Season 1 Episode 8
In the autumn of 2019, I spent a week in the small town of Marrow, Missouri—a place you won't find on any map. I was cataloging old folk songs, but w…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Woman Who Stayed at the Pines Motel
Season 1 Episode 7
December 1987. A woman checks into Room 9 of the Pines Motel on Route 17 outside Varick, New York, and does not check out. Not because she died—but b…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Bell in the Chapel at Frost Hollow
Season 1 Episode 6
Vermont, December 1987. Luna's car slid off an unplowed road near the ghost town of Frost Hollow. She took shelter in an abandoned clapboard chapel w…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Night the Payphone Rang at Holloway's Diner
Season 1 Episode 5
October 1998. A waitress at a tired diner off Route 17 in upstate New York takes a call from her own future — but the warning arrives too late. The p…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Quiet Year at Red Clay General Store
Season 1 Episode 4
In the autumn of 1998, the Red Clay General Store in upstate New York stopped selling certain things. Not because they were out of stock, but because…
2 months, 1 week ago