For internet sleuths, nothing beats a firsthand account—especially when it’s your own. Desperate for tangible evidence of a shadow government, monstrous creatures, and a laboratory complex built deep beneath the Denver International Airport, Jessica wrangles a gaggle of like-minded armchair adventurers to break into the facility, seeking not only validation but vindication too.
Using the Escaping Denver podcast as a loose guide, this ragtag team discovers that it’s not breaking in that’s hard—it’s getting out.
Teague Bohlen is an associate professor of fiction at the University of Colorado Denver, where he runs the student newspaper The Sentry and serves as fiction editor for the literary magazine Copper Nickel. He works the literary, pop-culture, and sociopolitical commentary beats for the alt-weekly Westword, and his short fiction has been seen nationwide. His first novel, The Pull of the Earth, won the Colorado Book Award, and his first collection of stories, Flatland, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in 2020.