Test post, for potential publishing?

Author's note: Just a test bit for critique, a story post will be made probably on Saturday.

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Temporary title; Blastwave I: The folly of war



Dear Reader,

Good morning, good evening. Where ever you may be, allow me to be your guide through this terrible tale of the folly of man. I have no doubt that it did not happen, but allow me to explain.

Last year during July fourth, when most other people would be out celebrating the birth of the U.S. by blowing up a small chunk of it, I and a few other researchers at a facility that need not be named were performing an experiment based on a new form of technology that we had developed that captured and stored Neutrino particles. In simple terms we were attempting to bypass the normal laws of reality and send something through time in a more... direct route. To say the least the experiment resulted in an electrical fire and a loss of all the collected neutrino particles. Initially we thought that we had been pranked by another research team due to the facility having been consumed by a prank war with the winner earning a very coveted statue of a monkey, however when the smoke cleared I found, in place of the Circle K 44oz soft drink we were attempting to launch through time, a well worn journal had taken its place.

Out tests conducted on the journal indicate that, among a detectable tachyon radiation count it also has been exposed to various heavy elements that are present at a recent atomic detonation, which leads us to believe that we have evidence of a variation of one of the alternate timeline theories in our possession. After a heated debate among my research group we decided to publish the contents of the book as an action adventure story for, though we have found no reason to believe that the events recorded within did not happen in the timeline it came from, and have found no proof that it was simply a clever ruse. I have been in charge of this side venture, and have chosen to leave most of the contents unedited, except in a few instances where noted. As an added note, the page where the writer wrote his name on the book was either torn out so we, unfortunately do not know who in this alternate timeline wrote the following.

With all regards,

Associate Researcher R.G. Phoenix








p1.

10-26-2012

Am I alive, or am I in hell? I don't know beyond that I slept through the apocalypse.  The power's been out all day and the battery on my radio died in the afternoon, though all it had on all the bands was the same automated message on a loop about staying indoors due to radiation. I shouldn't have stayed up most of the night studying for midterms. Now I'm stuck here and left behind. I don't even have my room-mate to talk to. He just vanished last week saying he had a family emergency before running out of the apartment with his camping backpack and a guitar case. Then again he wasn't exactly much for conversation. Keeping the fridge door closed to try and let the food last a while.

10-27-2012

I started digging through my closet today to keep my mind on something. Forgot that I'd stored the old microwave in there, and a laptop and a bunch of  old school stuff. Laptop powered on and  runs, so I got to play some solitaire for a while.

Midafternoon now, a miracle happened. The power's back on. I can listen to the radio, mostly static though. One of the rock stations is still playing music and the DJ is talking to keep calm and that help is on the way.

I miss my family, our dog, even the rabbit.