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The Static
Paperback
Publisher: David Hughes
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The town of Overtun, Maine, is bleeding out.
The paper mill is a rusted skeleton, and the only thing still working overtime is the local liquor store. For Billy Landry, a disgraced DJ three months into a shaky sobriety, the graveyard shift at W-OVR is a quiet place to hide from the ghosts of his past. But tonight, the airwaves are turning wet.
The music is shriveling into a rhythmic pulse-a Wet Static that tastes like copper and sounds like teeth grinding in a dark room. It isn't just noise; it's a colonization. Something ancient and hungry is using Overtun's collective trauma as a hard drive, archiving the townspeople into a digital afterlife where the laws of physics pixelate and gravity is a suggestion.
When Casey Miller, a mechanic who trusts steel more than people, hears her long-dead father's voice calling from her engine block, she realizes the past has found a new frequency. To stop the Blue Man-a spindly entity rewriting the town's DNA-Billy must face a terrifying truth: his family wasn't just haunted; they were the Keepers of the Valve.
As a black, crystalline snow begins to fall and the Midnight Broadcast approaches, Billy has to make a choice. He can drown the world in his own failures, or he can become the grounding wire for a town's soul.
In Overtun, the truth doesn't set you free. It just changes your bit-rate.
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