The Final Dj
by Jon Fenton
Copyright© 2025 by Jon Fenton
Flash Story: After America is destroyed by wildfire and disease, a man named Kalen holds up inside a bunker. It's been months since he'd heard any sign of life, but a broadcast he heard could change everything.
Tags: Science Fiction Post Apocalyptic Near Future Pandemic Mystery Dystopian
The old radio hissed to life, breaking through the static of a desolate world.
‘DJ Karma, here again, bringing songs from the past to the phantoms of the future.’
Kalen twisted the knob of his beat-up pocket radio. It’d been weeks since he last heard another’s voice.
America had ended after years of being engulfed by fire along with a series of epidemics, taking the lives of most. The cities became graveyards, highways covered in dust. But somewhere not too distant stood a radio tower somehow able to draw power and a man inside it well enough to speak.
‘Here’s an oldie for all the dead or the living. A seventies number called American Pie – by some old hippie named Don Mclean. At least, I think he was a hippie. I’m sure the dead folks out there should find this fitting. The music began to play, and the words being sung made his hair stand on end, eerie against the silence of the wasteland around him.
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