Notice
Rafe Dunlow
Rodeo clown and bus-route substitute who stepped between Apostle and the crowd at Crossroads Arena; died after the laugh came too early and he bowed to give them something.
The Obituary Desk
Tonight's Notices
Literary death notices from the midnight broadcast — all fictional.
Each notice below is a fragment from the broadcast archive. They are written in obituary form, filed from real-sounding places, and connected to a larger story world. They are not records of real deaths.
Issue No. 4
The Amphicar
Issue No. 4 - filed after midnight
Notice
June Albright
Twenty-nine-year waitress at Lantern Gull who entered a restricted spillway after a Panama hat and table laughter made retrieval feel obligatory—though no one ordered her.
Notice
Theodore “Teddy” Mallow
Twenty-nine-year-old who said he was too old for the birthday ride, climbed onto the pickup hood anyway, and died when Blake's survival had become family tradition.
Notice
Sibley Crane
Kerrville cardiologist who turned patients' bodily terror into dinner anecdotes until his own sternum entered the story at the Mesquite Room.
Notice
Clara Vane
Former stunt diver and Sea Herald manager who demonstrated the right way to fall into an empty pool and met concrete where water used to be.
Notice
Mina Elise Voss
Horticulture worker and Harrow great-niece who asked Benton to slow the clinic machinery; died with two live oak saplings still waiting on her porch.
Notice
Benton Ray Harrow
Harrowbend patriarch who turned mortal fear into theater with his pale blue Amphicar until low water, fence wire, and a cracked south ramp refused the performance.
Issue No. 3
The Last False Alarm
Issue No. 3 - filed after midnight
Notice
Marion Kells
Billing clerk at North Hill Family Smiles who paused through nine fire alarms at the Wilbeth Arms and died in the east stairwell carrying her late husband's tool bag.
Notice
Clyde Sutter
Sheet-metal salesman and regional character who hid stolen lane antlers behind Plaza King Lanes, called in a fake stabbing, and was struck by a delivery truck— his last words on the recording were "No, really."
Notice
Gordon Pike
School district facilities supervisor who tracked an amber auxiliary fault light from October until it went steady, then entered the old county school basement alone and died closing a failed heat-exchanger line.
Notice
Lenora Mae Fitch
Retired reader who pressed her medical alert pendant by accident so often the monitoring company filed her as frequent activation—tonight she said "I suppose I do," and help arrived twenty-six minutes later.
Notice
Arnie Price
Silver Net Diner line cook whose malfunctioning Honda alarm had trained neighbors and Tessa Lowe to ignore it—he died in the driver’s seat while it sounded for eleven minutes after his kitchen shift.
Notice
Vivian Dole
Former dinner-theater performer known for theatrical fainting who collapsed rehearsing an entrance in the Orpheum Arms lobby while neighbors applauded, believing the potluck had begun with a bit.
Notice
Edward Arthur Vale
Garage filmmaker who spent decades turning urgency into performance until Ruth stopped believing his calls—he died working on an unfinished picture titled The Last False Alarm and said "No, really" one last time.
Notice
Ansel Reeve
Fresno Central High speech teacher and debate coach who rated his chest pain "maybe a four" in the Saint Brigid ER waiting room and died quietly after thirty-seven minutes—his last words were that he should have made more of a fuss.
Issue No. 1
The Map of Elsewhere
Issue No. 1 — filed after midnight
Notice
Corinne Applewhite
Assistant night manager of the Gray Finch Hotel, killed on her bicycle while carrying a water-damaged copy of The Map of Elsewhere and two oranges.
Notice
Ambrose K. Welliver
Retired geography teacher who died watching a televised auction of antique globes—he had drawn 214 maps of places he never visited.
Notice
Delbert Spoon
Former automobile repossession agent who died during a blueberry pie-eating contest at a volunteer fire department harvest fair—after winning the apple division.
Notice
Nadine Van Orman
Bakery worker struck at 11th and Dempsey, carrying a coat lined with handwritten destinations—the last word, near the cuff, was Elsewhere.
Notice
Ferris Bellwether Noon
Theater owner who fell from the Meridian marquee while repairing the second E in ELSEWHERE—hours before a planned one-night reopening.
Notice
Hollis Vane
Real-estate salesman who died three days before sentencing in a fraud case involving Blue Mercy Shores—lakefront property that was geographically impossible.
Notice
Orla Minnow
Student worker at Gallatin Community College Library; the last book she checked in was The Map of Elsewhere, missing nine years, returned with no note.
Issue No. 12
Bodies Built for Another World
Issue No. 12 — mini edition, two notices, two long readings
Notice
Morton Tusk
Receiving associate called Dock Mort — died behind Barrow & Sons loading doors after seals followed him home from the fish dock; coworkers found a brass house key that opened nothing yet.
Notice
Dennis Larch
Municipal records clerk who wanted dental — collapsed during the push-up module of the Cretaceous Physical Fitness Test; sticky note crossed out, then Try anyway.