Mystery English
I've Got You at Forty-Seven
Someone is setting the Pine Barrens alight at dusk, and her nephew is taking the blame.
Every spring for eleven years, Carol Ann Birdsall has watched the Pine Barrens from her fire tower and crossed smoke bearings with Lloyd, the voice in the next tower over. When someone starts setting fires at dusk and her nephew takes the blame, she promises Lloyd she'll find the real firebug, with the state already deciding which towers go dark.
5 episodes 35 min
Free. No account. 7 minutes.
Episodes
- 1First SmokeEpisode 1 7:20 Free
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Episode 1 free · 8 min
Thriller 5 episodes
2 a.m. A call from a dead man’s line, and a whisper with plans for a girl.
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Literary 4 episodes
The bell is ringing from a signal box bulldozed seventeen years ago. In her father’s rhythm.
Episode 1 free · 7 min
Horror 5 episodes
Dawn: her forty hives are draped in mourning. Somebody has told the bees a lie she can’t take back.
Episode 1 free · 7 min
Thriller 5 episodes
The overnight coach to Glasgow. Her little brother boards with a rucksack and won’t look at her.
Episode 1 free · 8 min
Horror 5 episodes
Something is knocking at the byre door, and every hawthorn on the road is in blossom. In October.
Episode 1 free · 7 min
