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181 - One Hundred Eighty One

181 - One Hundred Eighty One

FromBreaker Whiskey


181 - One Hundred Eighty One

FromBreaker Whiskey

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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Apr 1, 2024
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. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [click, static] “Junior”. That’s what the last morse code message said.  Does that mean what I think it means? That it isn’t Billings who’s walking around out there, but that it’s his… I mean, god, it makes sense. He looks like him, but not exactly, he’s younger and— [click, static] Jesus christ. I really…I mean I really did that, didn’t I? I really brought him here, to this terrible place, where he’s been all alone and, god, he would’ve been just a kid and I— [click, static] Where’s his mother? Is she here too? Is she alive somewhere? Did he at least have her?  I didn’t know that Billings had a kid. Of course I didn’t. I knew he was—well, I knew he was married, I guess. He had on a wedding ring when I—well, I remember because I took his— [click, static] I took his watch. It wasn’t even that nice of a watch, it was—it felt wrong to take his wallet, somehow, like digging into his pockets was too much of an invasion, which is probably an absurd thing to think after what I did to him, but— The watch. I thought maybe we could pawn it. I knew we’d need money eventually, thought we would get to Canada maybe and start over. But of course that ended up not being necessary. Not only could I not pawn anything, but I didn’t have to. Because what I did to Billings broke the world.  And now his…his son? His son is imprisoned in this terrible future right along with us and maybe his wife too and I don’t know how to fix it. I don’t know if it can be fixed.  [click, static]  
Released:
Apr 1, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.