Carols That Never End

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The story

A late-night disc jockey takes a request call from a woman asking him to play the carol her caroller group sang outside her window every night since Thanksgiving. He checks the station log and finds the record has been playing for nine straight days without a break.

How it begins

It was a quarter past one on a Tuesday morning in December, and the snow was falling over the city the way it always does on the nights nobody wants to be awake. My name is Dale Harker, and for eleven years I have spun records on the late shift at WKRX, a little station squatting at the top of a hill above the harbour. The studio is small, the coffee is terrible, and the only company I get is the red light on the mixing board and the tick of the wall clock. You learn to like it. You learn to like the quiet, too, until the night the…