Ben Hammond hosts the worst UFO show on radio.

Night after night, he mocks callers with their stories of strange lights, alien visitors and flying saucers. Then one caller describes something so trivial, so mundane, that he almost didn't bother ringing the show: he's been doodling mysterious patterns.

Except Hammond has been drawing the same patterns.

Soon this weird writing is turning up in unexpected places, and Hammond discovers he can read it.

And he immediately wishes he couldn't.

A darkly comic science fiction short story about UFOs, mysterious messages and one very reluctant radio host.

Short Fiction