Read the Real Dry Manifesto

One Thing Stops, Another Starts…

When a government archaeologist is furloughed during a shutdown, he turns to cleaning out his late grandfather’s art studio—and discovers an old desk that has… agency.

Something calling itself Dude prompts him to anchor a strange sort of show: deep-time analyses of current crises, and news headlines distilled through nothing less than the lens of humankind’s total existence.

Sparked by untraceable index cards and cursed by an intolerable intro and constant interruptions, Real Dry News congeals as part cosmic memo, part existential prank. Then it gets weirder.

Jesse doesn’t know if this is grief, madness, or genuine contact with something ancient and other.

But whatever it is, it is happening.