Way of a Rebel

In a near‑future America, the nation has been seized by a sweeping emergency decree that hands all branches of government to the Department of Defense. Lieutenant Laskell, alone in a one‑man sub off the Florida coast, watches the night sky as a radio broadcast announces the new authoritarian order and a looming all‑out attack against the Soviet bloc. The world has been reshaped overnight, and the quiet ocean becomes the backdrop for a stark new reality.

Faced with a command that summons him back to base under the ominous code‑word “Mother,” Laskell feels a surge of personal rebellion. His thoughts drift between the cold mechanics of war and the unsettling calm that follows devastation. As he wrestles with his own sense of right and wrong, listeners are drawn into the tense moment when a solitary officer must decide whether to obey or to resist.