Small Hours at the Starlight

Small Hours at the Starlight — cover art

Nebraska, 1962. Every night for two weeks the same green Hudson has parked in row nine of the Starlight Drive-In, speaker hung on the window, and nobody inside. You run the projector. You see everything. Except where the driver goes.

small-town mysteryNewShort read

~42–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

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