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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 6: The Message
from Jinji
1. Static Mouth
Dawn broke like someone was learning to turn
on light. Henry hadn’t slept. The captures played in
a loop while Lisbon tried to decide what noise
should be.
He tuned an old radio on his kitchen counter
through dead air and devotional songs. On one
frequency the hum became a whisper. He turned a
hair. The whisper made a shape. He turned again.
The shape opened like a mouth.
“Jinji,” he said softly to the radio. “If you’re
there.”
Carolina leaned in, hand on the antenna,
becoming part of the circuit. The whisper thickened
into a voice stitched from old syllables.
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