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025 - Twenty-Five

025 - Twenty-Five

FromBreaker Whiskey


025 - Twenty-Five

FromBreaker Whiskey

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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Aug 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey.
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[TRANSCRIPT]
[click, static]
I haven’t heard from you in a few days, which I’m hoping just means you’re trying to think of what to say and not that I scared you away by sharing every single thought that pops into my head. 
I think I got used to talking to no one in particular fast. Sure, I knew that everything I said on here could be heard—that was the whole point after all— but after only a few days of realizing how unlikely that was, it became very easy to slide into using the CB as my own personal sounding board. Or head shrinker or…I don’t know, if I believed in God, maybe this is how I would talk to Him. 
[click, static]
I know what you might be thinking—after everything, I still don’t think there’s some kind of higher power running the show? Well, sure, maybe God really did decide to pull another Noah and wipe out humanity, sparing a few, but if that was His plan, leaving me and Harry as the last standing pair doesn’t show the best forward thinking. Which, for someone who’s supposed to be omniscient, would be a little embarrassing. 
So, no, the world emptying out or everyone dying or the entire population deciding to play history’s most elaborate prank does not make me suddenly believe in the fairytale of God. If He wanted me to believe in me, he could come down here and tell me Himself. 
[click, static]
Speaking of direct communication—how’s that for a segue—you really don’t need to put so much thought into your messages, if that’s what you’re doing. I’m clearly not thinking of being particularly delicate or interesting—though I hope I’m at least interesting. If it’s a morse code issue…you know, trying to keep things short and sweet…then just let me know where you are. And then we can do away with the radio waves completely. 
So. Birdie. Where are you? Can we meet somewhere? You pick the time and place and I’ll be there, long as its on this continent. 
[click, static]
Whiskey out. 
[click, static] 
[beeps]
Released:
Aug 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

BREAKER WHISKEY is an ongoing, daily microfiction podcast exploring one woman’s journey to find additional survivors in an America made empty by an unknown event in the late 1960s. In 1968, two women find themselves in rural Pennsylvania during what turns out to be some kind of apocalyptic event. By the time they discover that everyone else is gone, it’s too late to figure out what happened. Despite not liking each other at all, the women work together to survive, until six years later one of them sets out on her own, driving around the country to find other survivors. This is her, calling out to anyone who might listen. BREAKER WHISKEY is made by Lauren Shippen and recorded on a 1976 Midland CB Radio. It releases daily, Monday through Friday. If you would like the entire week's episodes as one single download, released on Monday, you can support the show at patreon.com/breakerwhiskey or by becoming an Atypical Plus supporter at atypicalartists.co/support. Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey.