52 - Roses

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

At four in the morning, I awoke writhing in pain. It was a hunger like nothing I’d felt up to that point. Like a force of nature. A vacuum needing to be filled. I tried in vain to sleep, to turn my thoughts away from eating and onto anything else, the blue rose, my future plans, my investment portfolio, literally anything. But it was no use. --Written by Jacob Duarte Spiel and performed by Melissa Taylor. Support The Wrong Station by subscribing at www.patreon.com/thewrongstation. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The wonder working power in the precious...
0:07.0	...credible as they seem are not the results of mass hysteria...
0:12.0	You may wish to adjust the dial.
0:20.0	You are currently tuned into the wrong station. I'm So you're the one from insurance.
1:08.0	Yeah, I know you need a statement. No, I don't mind talking about it now, but let's make it quick.
1:14.6	I'm leaving for the cottage in a few hours.
1:16.6	And shut the door.
1:18.6	I'd obviously heard about the house before.
1:21.6	You can't work at Kincaid Gold Limited and not hear about it.
1:24.6	You know, every few weeks I still get a breathless email from some new underling who's
1:29.8	found one of the old 80s tabloid articles.
1:33.0	You know, the ones with the screaming 72 point font headlines.
1:37.3	Articles detailing the tragic slash bizarre deaths of the Kincaids while on vacation in South
1:43.2	America.
1:44.3	Articles filled with leaked details about the miserly will, which left almost nothing to the
1:50.1	family or charity.
1:51.9	Articles that speculated about hidden treasure in the sealed-off home of Canada's most
1:56.6	paranoid power couple.
1:59.1	It's interesting to some, but old news to me. I mean, sure, I used to
2:03.9	daydream of smashing through the drywall to find rubies the size and color of raw ribby
2:08.7	stakes, but who didn't? It's just idle fantasy. And then the CFO called me into a closed-door meeting.
2:19.0	At that point, I'd never spoken to the CFO, not even at the Christmas party.
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