In the summer of 1963, eleven-year-old Tommy Pickett sets off alone from Vernal, Utah, for a fishing trip up Ashley Creek, armed with a peanut butter sandwich, a transistor radio, and a sense of boundless adventure. As he ventures deeper into the high desert mountains, a mysterious station on his radio pulls him toward an unmapped realm waiting since before his birth. This Twilight Zone-style tale explores the thin line between the ordinary world and the uncanny unknown.

Key Topics Covered:

• 1960s rural Utah life in Vernal, amid dinosaur bones and oilfields
• A boy's solitary journey up Ashley Creek's remote logging tracks and waterfalls
• The eerie allure of an unidentified radio station broadcasting otherworldly music
• Childhood solitude, family dynamics, and fleeting moments of profound intro ...