BOOM.

No Loose Ends

I'm very sorry to be one of the many radio hosts announcing this around the globe, but I'm afraid this is The End.

It's time for all of us to say goodbye, to our families, our homes, and the wonderful planet on which we have inhabited for centuries.  My advice: tie up all those loose ends you've been putting off.  Read your kid a bedtime story, call up that person you haven't seen in years but think about everyday, confess your everlasting love to the girl of your dreams. 

I'm David Renner, your small town radio host for the past four years.  It's been a true pleasure.  This will be the final show as I, myself, am leaving this beautiful place to tie up a few loose ends of my own.  God bless, if I ever didn't believe in one, I sure hope there's one now.

Radio silence.  She replayed the few phrases that had stuck in her mind over and over. 

Loose ends, loose ends.  Did she have any of those?  None she could surely think of as she lay against the cold bathtub bottom in everything but an overtop shirt.  Her shoulder blades bare against the bleach white surface, she let her thoughts flow like how the water would if she had bothered to turn the faucet on. 

Was it bad, or very good that she had no loose ends?  No final goals to achieve.  No closing tasks to complete.  Maybe both. 

Or maybe she really did have a single loose end that she would not recall till The End when the earth went BOOM.  Oh, the bad luck she would have been dealt if this were to happen.

She had never really believed in luck though, much like that radio host had never really believed in God till now. 

I suppose knowing The End of the world is approaching in... she lifted her head to check her watch that hadn't heard the news that would soon silence its ticking...twenty three and a half hours away, you might change your method of thinking a tad bit.

The utter silence of the still bathroom settled in as the minutes clicked away. 

With a sigh, not of grief, desperation, or weariness, just of simple human sighing, she supposed she ought to do something. 

After all, it was The End of the world.