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Otis Jiry’sMidnightTransmission
The signal gets stranger after dark.
Turn the lights down. Settle in. Otis Jiry is at the microphone with stories that get under your skin—and stay there.
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Latest transmission / 22 min
The Standing Type
When a woman walks into a South Shields newspaper office to complain about her own obituary, the compositor who set it has to reckon with six years of notices he never questioned. Crossing out her name may not be enough.
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From the archive / 24 min
Paid in Full
As a Baltimore department store prepares to close on Christmas Eve, a longtime layaway clerk pays off an elderly customer's last six dollars as a parting kindness. But something behind the stockroom gate has been waiting for that balance to reach zero.
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From the archive / 23 min
Collection Night
Sixteen-year-old Toby needs his paper-route collections to help keep the electricity on, but six customers on Linden come with instructions he can't afford to follow: pay their bills himself and stay off their porches after four.
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From the archive / 26 min
Return to Sender
A disgraced taxidermist working out of a subterranean Boston workshop receives an unclassified, fleshy specimen sealed in cold preservation brine. As he prepares his tools, a burning sensation in his childhood spinal scar exposes an uncanny biological pull toward the vat. Some missing pieces were never meant to stay lost.
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A voice you know.
A darkness you don’t.
There’s a reason you remember an Otis Jiry story. The measured pause. The warmth that makes you lean in. The moment you realize you probably shouldn’t have.
Midnight Transmission is a new chapter in independently produced horror fiction, with Otis at the heart of every telling.
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