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WHAT CAME BACK — Part 4 of 4: I Had to Drown My Son a Second Time to Save My Daughter

The last day of July is the hottest of all, the reservoir hits bottom, and the drowned town stands fully bare under the moon — which means Nora is out of time. The boy is

WHAT CAME BACK — Part 3 of 4: The Woman Down the Road Kept Hers for Forty Years

The reservoir falls forty feet and a drowned town rises out of the mud — stone walls, a half-melted steeple, and a graveyard breaking the surface in neat pale rows. At th

WHAT CAME BACK - Part 2 of 4: My Daughter Said "That's Not Toby." I Told Her to Be Quiet.

By morning the boy is still cold — cold in the white July heat, cold to the touch at the breakfast table — and Nora makes her choice: she smiles, feeds him, and starts bu

WHAT CAME BACK - Part 1 of 4: My Drowned Son Knocked on the Door. I Let Him In.

Episode 250. Thank you for 250 nights in the dark with us! The summer he came back was the hottest anyone could remember. Fourteen months after her eight-year-old son dr

Dog Days - (Episode 4 of 4) - "Cooler"

The storm finally breaks over the dead city, and the cool air Dana prayed for becomes the thing she fears most — because it clears the room, throws the curtains wide, and

The Best Halloween Candy This Year

Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories, starting with candy reviews: Hi-Chew Mystery Mix is praised for flavors like green apple, cotton candy, and ora

Dog Days - (Episode 3 0f 4) - "Keeping Company"

With the water gone and her own mind unraveling in the heat, Dana refuses to leave the frail neighbor she stayed behind to protect. She pours fresh water by the chair eac

But Her Finger

Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories: Tropical Smoothie Cafe launches its first Halloween drink, the bright orange Fanta Phantom smoothie topped with

Dog Days - (Episode 2 of 4) - "An Honest Man"

The water dies to a trickle, then to nothing, and the heat begins working on Dana's mind as surely as her body — time slipping, shapes moving at the edges of empty rooms.

Dog Days - (Episode 1 of 4) - "The last ones up"

A record heat dome seals the city, the power fails for good, and one by one the residents of a nine-story walk-up flee north — until only Dana and Edith, the frail old wo

The Worst Halloween Candy of all time

Host Johnny Mac shares five good news stories centered on Halloween season trends. He recaps a cleveland.com look at the unloved orange-and-black “Peanut Butter Kisses,”

The Gaps (Episode 4 of 4) - "One Person"

Martin comes at nine in the morning with a folder and a detective inspector's name. Nora is ready. The evidence the other Nora assembled — the paint sample, the repair re

The Gaps (Episode 3 of 4) - "The Other Side"

Nora listens to all eleven voice memos. In order, across one long night, she learns everything the other Nora has been building for eight months during the gaps: the acci

The Gaps (Episode 2 of 4) - "Evidence"

Nora goes back through eleven years of journals looking for patterns she missed. The gaps cluster in October. They began, she realises now, the autumn after Deborah died.

The Gaps (Episode 1 of 4) - "Home"

Nora is thirty-eight, precise, self-contained, and very good at managing her condition. She has had dissociative gaps since she was twenty-six — hours she simply cannot a

The most popular Halloween Costume the year you were born

Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories: Spirit Halloween’s annual costume trend report, noting fandom-driven picks like Toy Story, K-pop demon hunters,

The Likeness - Episode 4 of 4 - "The Original"

Marcus doesn't call the police. He does something harder. He calls everyone — his ex-wife, his sister, his daughter, his oldest friend — not to be believed, but to be on

The Likeness - Episode 3 of 4 - "The Mirror"

Marcus hasn't slept. He understands now what is being built — a version of him, three years in the making, precise enough to pass at a distance. The messages, the damaged

The Likeness - Episode 2 of 4 - "Groundwork"

Marcus investigates. The apartment sat vacant for six months before he moved in. His entry fob was used twice on nights he was out of town. His email was accessed, read,

The Likeness - Episode 1 of 4 - "Evidence"

Marcus is forty-one, recently divorced, starting over in a new city. The apartment is clean, the job is good, and he is trying. Then small things begin to be wrong. A mug