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The storm finally breaks over the Upper Ottawa Valley. Boys race the wind across a pasture, soldiers reshape the riverbanks with explosives, and engineers make careful adjustments inside a nuclear reactor. By the time the sky clears and the farmyard fills with trucks and voices, one small mistake will quietly change hands.

Grivens’ Mistake moves through time and place — fields, reactors, bases, and crowded sidewalks — tracing how ordinary decisions carry forward, long after the moment has passed.

This is a story about the cost of calling things normal. And the River remembers.

Listen to Episode 2 - Grivens’ Mistake, Part 1.

Welcome to The River Knows. The River keeps its secrets. And now, so do we.

Yours truly,

Yule

On a summer day in the Upper Ottawa Valley, boys wander a farm with nowhere to be and nothing waiting — but a storm is gathering. Elsewhere, engineers ride a company bus toward a nuclear reactor, soldiers train along the riverbanks, and there is good-looking trouble downtown.

This is a story about the cost of calling things normal. And the River remembers.

Grivens’ Mistake, Part 1, moves through time and place — fields, reactors, bases, and crowded sidewalks — tracing how ordinary decisions carry forward, long after the moment has passed.

Welcome to The River Knows. The River keeps its secrets...and its boys.

Listen to Episode 1 - When the Boys Awoke.

Yours truly,

Yule

In this debut chapter of The River Knows, a five-part cinematic audio drama, the River recalls a cold March morning in 1975, when two brothers wake near Hennessy’s Creek—unaware that the land beneath them carries centuries of memory.

Rooted in Algonquin homelands, Valley folklore, and the liminal edges of early adolescence, this opening episode sets the mythic and historical stage for the journey ahead.

Continue with Episode 2 - Grivens' Mistake

The River keeps its secrets...and its boys.