August 2022. Author: Marshall J Moore Narrator: S. Kay Nash Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie   Daisies is a CatsCast original.   Content Notes: Grief is a major theme of this story. The story also depicts the peaceful death of a beloved cat.   Daisies by Marshall J Moore   I believe I was the only person on Earth who stayed outdoors on that golden evening, watching the world end.   The bombs rose from the far horizon like stars ascending to greet the night. Our bombs, or at least the ones with Old Glory painted on their sides. Soon they would descend, falling like avenging angels onto some lonely hilltop on the far side of the planet.   I imagined a woman exactly like me in every respect save language and ethnic background watching them fall, knowing what was about to happen. I felt sorry for her.   I wondered who stood to gain from killing the whole world. The cockroaches, maybe.   The other bombs fell scarcely an hour later. The golden sky had turned to purple; royal colors. It was just dark enough to watch as they streaked across the night, a quintet of stars falling to earth, so bright that it hurt my eyes to watch them. But I did not look away.   I did not hide from the bombs, or the death they brought with them. There was nothing to hide from.   I had buried Daisy the day before.   Read the rest on Patreon.   Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International 4.0 license.  

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