A Night in Dudleytown Reflections and Stories Along the Way

This is Dick Sederquist with my eighth Reflections and Stories Along the Way podcast. I wrote this two-part mystery, a departure from my normal nonfiction writing, a few years ago after a visit to Dudleytown. Unlike television that bombards your senses with a thousand images a minute, the old late night radio plays would suck you in with a single seductive mental image, which slowly evolved as the plot thickened. Think of me as your radio narrator. Hide under your covers in a darkened room, like I did as a child with my radio. Don’t think about those scary things hiding under your bed and in the closet. This story may be fictional, except for some historical and contemporary parts, but in the telling it provides insight into how those old radio plays influenced the mind of the child and taught him to visualize and turn mental pictures into words. My writing style is expressed in my own quote “I paint pictures with words”. I never realized how telling those words are. Here is my tale. Imagine yourself in a scary place called Dudleytown.