A members-only serial · by Sean Platt
CRIMINAL
RECORDS
A record label, run from a prison cell. The music is real. The risk is fatal.
The premise
Jacob Price built a music empire and lost all of it to fifteen years inside Lompoc Federal. The one thing the sentence couldn’t touch was his ear. Behind the walls he hears the best voices of his life, and starts a label from his cell, recording in the chapel and the yard, uploading in the dark.
The world calls them the Ghosts of Lompoc. Nobody knows their faces. Everybody knows their songs. As the anonymous group explodes into a global sensation, the line between exploitation and rescue gets harder to find, and the people who put their freedom on the line to make this music have to decide who they’re really doing it for.
The Ghosts of Lompoc
Six people. One sound.
Jacob Price
The Ear
Disgraced mogul. The best A&R man alive, with nothing left to lose and everything to prove.
Dante Brooks
The Voice
A stadium-sized voice doing twenty-five years to keep his little brother out of a cell.
Carlos Reyes
The Words
A poet whose lines give the voice something worth singing about.
Malik Davis
The Beat
Nineteen, a beatboxing prodigy who can build a whole track out of his own breath.
Sully
The Inside Man
A corrections officer who looks the other way, for reasons he won’t say out loud.
Kira Osei
The Outside
Price’s former assistant, mastering and uploading the tracks the world can’t stop playing.
Read the opening
The first chapter is on the house.
The first time Jacob Price heard Dante Brooks sing, he was on his knees scrubbing the chow hall floor, and he forgot how to breathe.
Fifteen years he’d sold other people’s voices. Built an empire on the sound of someone else’s gift. And here, under fluorescent light and the smell of bleach, was a voice that could have filled stadiums, wasting itself on a hymn nobody was meant to hear.
Price set the mop down. He had nothing left to lose, and one thing left he was still the best in the world at. He started doing the math.
GHOSTS OF
LOMPOC
The music is part of the story
This season comes with the album the Ghosts record.
The story and the music, together. The tracks the characters cut in the chapel are the tracks you stream. Only inside The Library.
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Yard Light
3:12
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Count Time
2:48
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Ghosts (Anthem)
4:05
Read it like you watch it
Season One drops you into the cell and doesn’t let you out.
Short, fast chapters that always end one beat past where you meant to stop. It reads the way you binge your favorite show. One more, one more, and then it’s 2 a.m. and the season’s gone.
Read it where it lives.
The first chapters are free. The full serial, plus the album, lives inside The Library, along with every other world Sean has built.