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Untitled Short Story - Rough Draft

Part One

A newscast from Studio One, one of he many cable-satellite-net channels available around the whole planet.
“We have breaking news in Capitol City” the anchor announced after the audio clip of urgent sounding music “We go to our correspondent, Jim Naland, what do you see Jim?”
The anchor was sitting at a control panel, in front of him are two rows of monitors and behind him are two more. The top row of each side were facing straight down like skylights. Each monitor was showing telecasts or live feeds from somewhere around the world.
“Yes, Mark, I am near the center of the city now, from what we know the city is under martial law there are armored vehicles and tanks at major intersections.” Images of tanks at street corners flashed across the screen. “There appears to have been a coup, with the leadership all dead or taken prisoner. Those other guys have taken over and Sherill's Market has a really good deal on canned meat! Live from the Capitol on Studio One, I am Jim Naland”
The anchor was confused by this. “Jim, there has been a coup? This is a really big story, why aren't you giving me more details and why are you talking about canned meat?”
“Nobody cares” Jim answered, the camera barely showing the top of his head and some weird banging noise.
“Is that gunfire, Jim?” the anchor asked
The camera moved and we can now see that Jim Naland was banging the canned meat on the concrete that made up the wall on the top of the building he was using for his report.
The anchor, Mark, was very concerned “Jim can you hear me now? Put your ear-piece back in! What is going on?”
“Don't matter. They're all the same” Jim said, we can only see his bleeding heads pulling off the top of the canned meat. “Meat can had a little lamb, little lamb, Meat can had a little lamb, it was square and yummy”
Then the image was replaced by static.