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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Today's #flashfiction Broadcasting To You Alive

“No one ever changes.”
Optimus Prime* #quote



Today I met a man who once boarded a plane. I asked him how the plane could take off he boarded it all up? Anyway onto the flash fiction!


Broadcasting To You Alive

        Raymond looked out the window of the radio station at his farm. He didn't own the farm by buying it, he inherited it, and all the other farms around it when their original owners died. Before he took the farms over he didn't pay much attention to them, he just traveled to work each day to host the radio's shows and play its songs. But now with his house rubble, and no one else around, he only called this place home.
       After the demolition of his city by missiles from one nation or another in this new World War he thanked God for what he thought was misfortune that his grandparents got him a set of farming documentaries to watch for Christmas one year and he was forced to watch and talk about them for hours.
      He broadcast a song as the station continued to operate off of solar panels he stole from a house. His uncles taught him about that. As the song played he started to think about all the little things that helped him survive and where he picked them up from.

      The nukes didn't hit his city, only the smaller missiles so he hoped other survivors managed in areas weren't saturated by radiation. He spent his days using his radio listening for broadcasts from others, and sending out messages of his own, songs and other things. Whenever a pleasant thought entered his mind he shared it, no matter how rare they came in those times, to the listeners he hoped existed.  

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