Apocalypse right now (OC)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) You’d hear the sound of your radio stuttering and screaming as you drove, your radio clearly too old and the signal here too disturbed by the trees and fields to produce anything other than white noise and static. You were far away from the city you were used to driving around in, your job requiring you to deliver some spare parts to a power plant in a semi-rural settlement of which was surrounded by several much smaller and much more rural towns around it, the towns being scattered between various fields and large forests. Still, you supposed that it was a change compared to the noise of the city that you were used to, the lack of traffic on the semi dirt road also being a rather pleasant experience given how many times you were stuck in traffic waiting for someone to move out of the way. You’d look up at the trees, seeing as the branches and leaves swayed above you befor...