Beyond the Wasteland

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United States

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The radio crackled to life at exactly 3:47 AM, jolting Elena from her restless sleep. She had been dreaming of rain again, proper rain that fell from gray clouds instead of the acidic drizzle that now passed for precipitation in what remained of the world. Her hand moved instinctively to the receiver, fingers dancing across the familiar dials with practiced precision despite the darkness that enveloped her makeshift shelter. Static filled the small underground bunker she had called home for the past eighteen months, punctuated by something that made her heart race: a human voice. Not the automated emergency broadcasts that had played on loop for three years since the Great Silence began, not the ghostly echoes of old transmissions bouncing off the ionosphere, but an actual person speaking in real time. "This is Station Echo-7, broadcasting on emergency frequency 14.235. Day one thousand and ninety-seven since the event. Is anyone out there? Please respond if you can hear this message." Elena's hands trembled as she reached for her own transmitter. She had stopped broadcasting months ago, convinced that she was the only soul left alive in the desolate expanse that had once been the American Midwest. The voice was male, middle-aged perhaps, with a slight accent she couldn't quite place. More importantly, he sounded lucid, coherent, and wonderfully, impossibly alive. She pressed the transmission button, her voice barely a whisper at first. "This is Elena Martinez, broadcasting from Grid Reference 7-Alpha-2. I hear you, Echo-7. I hear you." The words caught in her throat, emotions she had buried deep threatening to overwhelm her carefully maintained composure. Duration - 1h 1m. Author - Astrid Bjørka. Narrator - Digital Voice Archie G. Published Date - Sunday, 19 January 2025.

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English