WITNESS
The Broadcast Woman
◈ character · Season One: The First Drift
She was on air when the static happened. She remembers it as eleven seconds. Her producer now says nine.
She has been a news anchor for seventeen years. She has seen feeds cut, signals drop, equipment fail. This was different. She felt it in her chest — a specific quality of absence. When she looked at the camera again, something had moved in the studio that she couldn't name.