"Night Wire" , en kort historia av H. F. Arnold , text tillgänglig här , ljud här . Staden är Xebico.
Hur jag hittade det: Jag fuskade. Jag mailade James D. MacDonald och han var vänlig nog att svara på mig. Han säger att du har ett minne av minne. Historien är tillgänglig många platser på webben; Jag kopplade till kopian på MacDonalds hemsida.
Ett utdrag ur historien:
The first wire was running out the usual sort of stuff and I just looked over it hurriedly. Then I turned to the second pile of copy. I remembered it particularly because the story was from a town I had never heard of: "Xebico." Here is the dispatch. I saved a duplicate of it from our files:
"Xebico, Sept 16 CP BULLETIN
"The heaviest mist in the history of the city settled over the town at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. All traffic has stopped and the mist hangs like a pall over everything. Lights of ordinary intensity fail to pierce the fog, which is constantly growing heavier.
"Scientists here are unable to agree as to the cause, and the local weather bureau states that the like has never occurred before in the history of the city.
"At 7 P.M. last night the municipal authorities...
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That was all there was. Nothing out of the ordinary at a bureau headquarters, but, as I say, I noticed the story because of the name of the town.