A serialized mystery fiction podcast
They should have kept driving.
Two Berkeley grads. One last road trip. A town called Halloway, a body on the rocks, and a black card printed with a single word.
The premise
The title is yellow brick road, stripped to its bones. The story unspools the same way — one clue, one brick at a time, laid down by someone who wants them to keep walking. Reese follows the road. Sloane knows better. She is usually right.
Meet them →The clue-payoff map
A brick is a clue — not an episode — laid by someone who wants them to keep walking. Episode 1 alone laid 2. The road keeps going; the far end always dissolves into fog.
Brick 03
Waiting at the end of the alley — and Episode 2 lays more than one.
Brick 04
Brick 05
The road only ever exists in the direction they're walking you.
Brick 06
No way back
A new episode every month. Two Berkeley graduates take one last road trip before real life starts, and stop in a town at the end of a long county road. They should have kept driving.
Who's walking it
Warm, curious, the one who insists on following the road. California money — to her it means freedom. Pulled forward by wonder, and narrating all of it.
“It started with a road. A long one, going somewhere nobody drives to on purpose.”
Sharp, dry, analytical. Old East-Coast money and the obligation she's fleeing. Wants to turn back and never quite does. Usually right.
“We should keep driving. We're not going to keep driving, are we.”
Runs the coffee shop at the edge of town. Kind, unassuming, remembers everyone's name. Knew Reese's before she gave it.
“There you are. Cold night for it. Come warm up before you drive. On the house.”
Halloway's entire police department, such as it is — one desk, one landline, one endlessly patient smile.
“Nobody goes missing in Halloway, miss. Hardly anybody left to go missing.”
Episode 3 — The Orpheum
She came over from Ireland young and meant only to pass through Halloway — forty years ago. Now she keeps every room made up and warm.
“Sure, you'll stay the night, pet. It's no bother at all — there's tea in it for you.”
Episode 2 — Underneath
Dreamy, disarming, and entirely at home somewhere she never meant to stay. She takes to Reese immediately.
“You'll see.”
Latest episode · 30:00
Six days after graduation, Reese and Sloane drive eighteen miles off the map into Halloway — a town that is far too quiet, and far too clean. Sightseeing at the old cannery, they find a body on the rocks. The only thing on it is a black card printed with a single word: ylobrkrd. And in a world soaked through with fog, the card is bone dry.
Show notes & transcript →New episodes drop in the fog. Subscribe wherever you listen, and the road finds you.