Mags watched the old man slump into an overstuffed, coffee-stained chair in the teachers’ lounge. It smelled like cigarettes and moth balls. Decades of stale smoke wrapped in tweed jackets with elbow patches.
Undoubtedly, it had been the treasured refuge of some crusty old academic with only a few years left to retirement. This old chair his redoubt from the squalling of adolescent rage.
That person was gone. Their jaded, dusty dreams swept away with the apocalypse.
Now this chair was empty.
Now it made a good place to temporarily store this old man.
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S2 E4 Outro
Hello survivors! Welcome back!
Picking up steam in Season 2 now. How do you like our new characters?
I like the Mags character. I hadn’t pre-planned to write her this way but she just naturally turned into a strong person. The kind of person you need in the Apocalypse.
I did have several people threaten to unfriend me over at the Facebook group after episode 3. Have patience. And, if you need to yell at me you can join us at the after the apocalypse Facebook group.
And, if you want to hire Robert for something, I don’t know, maybe to record the message on your voicemail, you can find him at Command Voices.
Wouldn’t that be great? “Welcome to the Apocalypse, We’re tied up surviving at the moment. Please leave a message. We’ll get back to you, if we survive…”
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Our tribe is growing nicely. We are at 28XXX downloads and running between 100-400 per day.
Thank you to those of you who have subscribed in your apps. And thank you for sharing with you friends, enemies and total strangers.
It looks like it’s working.
Keep it up!
Just drop the link shows.acast.com/after-the-apocalypse into Facebook, twitter, whatever. We are word of mouth so keep making words with you mouths in the direction of other people.
Also thanks to new Patreon member Corby who threw me a couple bucks. I appreciate the help.
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Feel free to reach out to me with any suggestions or comments.
I am having a blast writing and producing this – and I hope you are too.
If we have brightened your day even a little bit with our story telling it makes us happy.
We appreciate all your help and attention – and whatever you do – keep surviving.
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