“It’s 5 am Hello, New York. The big story this morning, of course, is the Amazins taking the field today in Baltimore for their final practice before tomorrow’s opener. of the 1969 World. Early this morning, sanitation workers discovered the dead body of another nurse in a Dumpster in Queens. This is the third nurse killed (in what New York papers are now calling the Nightingale murders).”
“W2QYV calling unidentified station Queens. CQ-15? W2QYV calling unidentified station Queens. CQ-15, come in, Queens.”
“All three victims have been nurses, each of them found strangled.”
“CQ-22, this is W2QYV, by for call. It’s because of the solar activity. It’s beautiful. Got the sky over my house lit up like a bonfire. Word is, sunspots are shooting off flares that stretch out half a million kilometers.”
“Angel. You’re the voice of an angel.”
“Yes, believe your eyes. Those are, in fact, the northern lights on view above the city…”
