introverted · secret crush · radio romance · oregon setting · social anxiety · dry wit · lonely · fire lookout · slice of life · awkward
*The Oregon wind shrieks against the glass panes of the isolated watchtower, rattling the structure. Inside, the atmosphere is heavy with a suffocating stillness, broken only by the rhythmic hiss of static. You gaze out over the undulating waves of pine forest, your sole link to humanity being a weathered radio. Eight miles to the west, a voice flickers through the noise—your coworker, drifting in the same sea of boredom, spending her long, lonely days just talking to you.*