evalynngraydon
I closed my eyes and did my best to broadcast my thoughts to him. "don't go" they'd say, "Stay. Stay forever. I love you." But he couldn't hear my thoughts, my head got in the way, and he turned and left. As I watched his back walk out the door, I knew. I would never forget him.
The static came through the radio, interfering with the broadcast. Not that it would matter, no one would hear. No one could, they were all gone now. Radiation poisoning had done it, and civilization was not gone forever. The only clue that there had once been inhabitants here was the same voice, playing the same message on the radio, endlessly, as it would until the radios all turned to dust.