A Future Broadcast

Briar battles for her vision of a modern local TV programme against the station's old guard, discovering her own resolve amidst the dusty chaos of the community studio, pushing for a new direction.

Briar’s heart thrummed a low, anxious rhythm against her ribs, a counterpoint to the distant, rhythmic clack of the old dot-matrix printer down the hall. It was always like this before a production meeting at Meadowbrook TV – a tight knot in her stomach, a nervous energy that sharpened her senses to the subtle shifts in the building’s ancient infrastructure. She could taste the faint metallic tang of imminent rain in the air, seeping through the porous, crumbling brick walls of the squat, utilitarian building that had housed the