Dr. NoSleep

I keep forgetting you don't have Bluetooth.

Blue what?

Is that another cable thing?

No, no, forget I even mentioned it.

You're not supposed to know about that stuff.

What am I supposed to know about?

So far, all you have told me is that I am all that stands between humanity's safety and complete and total annihilation.

I mean, that's pretty serious.

So could I have a few more details?

We've been over this.

If I give you more details than are absolutely necessary, then I can make things a million times worse.

And trust me when I say that things in the future are bad enough.

I don't need to add to this goddamn nightmare.

I sigh and lean my forehead against the cool glass of the bus window and watch the rainy landscape zip by.

It's lunchtime and cars are hurrying to get to restaurants or fast food joints or run errands.

Normal, simple stuff that people do every day.

You know what people don't do every day?

They don't talk to themselves over a damn ham radio that apparently can reach the future in order to stop some sort of apocalypse that is going to happen unless they can get a goddamn UHF converter.

Keith?

Talk to me.