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Selected correspondence from the letters desk, reproduced with fictional permission. The desk answers in tide order; Iris answers the seasonal twelve.

Dear Nightjar, my grandfather claimed he could hear your signals from his fishing boat in 1954. He also claimed the sea was soup. We miss him. Keep broadcasting. — Alice, Pelynt

1954, allegedly read on air, twice

Is the kettle real? Everything else I have accepted as fiction but the kettle feels load-bearing. — Tom

the kettle question answer: yes, structurally

I have listened to Wire & Wool every Saturday for two years. My cat now sits facing the radio at 7:20. I did not train this. — Priya

audience reports unverified, believed

Please settle an argument: is the stair F sharp or F? My spouse says F. My spouse is wrong. — G. Halloran

the stair dispute F sharp; the archive has the recording

I heard Dawn Watch on shortwave off the Azores in June. The trawler letter was framed before I was born. Consider this its sibling. — Ines

skip reports framed adjacent

Letter 209 made my postman cry. He has not heard the rest of the series. Do not tell him. — Anonymous

collateral effects contained

I submitted a script to First Nights in March. It was read cold in April. It was terrible. It was the best night of my life. — R. Okafor

graduation watch pending, hopeful

You say six relays but I count five on the map page. Is this canon? — the map club

continuity audit canon: six, one is shy

Write to the desk

The switchboard takes calls between the pips. Letters go to PO Box 1948. Everything below is a demonstration.

A name, please.
A working email, please.
The desk prefers a paragraph to a word.

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