The Last Stand
Carlos Mendoza
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
The morning sun cast long shadows across the empty streets of what had once been downtown Portland. Marcus Rivera adjusted the straps of his worn backpack and scanned the horizon through the cracked lens of his binoculars. Three months had passed since the Event, as survivors had come to call it, and the world had transformed into something unrecognizable.
The silence was perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this new reality. Where once the city hummed with the constant drone of traffic, construction, and human activity, now only the wind whistled through broken windows and the occasional groan of settling debris broke the oppressive quiet. Marcus had grown accustomed to many things in these past months, but the silence still made his skin crawl.
He lowered the binoculars and consulted the hand-drawn map tucked into his jacket pocket. The old paper was soft from repeated folding and unfolding, marked with X's and notes in his cramped handwriting. His destination lay another two miles southeast: a small warehouse district where intelligence suggested other survivors had established a trading post. If the information was accurate, he might finally be able to trade some of his salvaged electronics for medical supplies and ammunition.
Marcus had been a software engineer before the Event, spending his days in climate-controlled offices debugging code and attending meetings that seemed infinitely important at the time. Now, those skills felt as obsolete as the smartphones that no longer had networks to connect to. The most valuable abilities in this new world were far more primitive: how to find clean water, how to start a fire without matches, how to move silently through dangerous territory.
Duration - 50m.
Author - Carlos Mendoza.
Narrator - Digital Voice Matt G.
Published Date - Saturday, 18 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2025 Carlos Mendoza ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The morning sun cast long shadows across the empty streets of what had once been downtown Portland. Marcus Rivera adjusted the straps of his worn backpack and scanned the horizon through the cracked lens of his binoculars. Three months had passed since the Event, as survivors had come to call it, and the world had transformed into something unrecognizable. The silence was perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this new reality. Where once the city hummed with the constant drone of traffic, construction, and human activity, now only the wind whistled through broken windows and the occasional groan of settling debris broke the oppressive quiet. Marcus had grown accustomed to many things in these past months, but the silence still made his skin crawl. He lowered the binoculars and consulted the hand-drawn map tucked into his jacket pocket. The old paper was soft from repeated folding and unfolding, marked with X's and notes in his cramped handwriting. His destination lay another two miles southeast: a small warehouse district where intelligence suggested other survivors had established a trading post. If the information was accurate, he might finally be able to trade some of his salvaged electronics for medical supplies and ammunition. Marcus had been a software engineer before the Event, spending his days in climate-controlled offices debugging code and attending meetings that seemed infinitely important at the time. Now, those skills felt as obsolete as the smartphones that no longer had networks to connect to. The most valuable abilities in this new world were far more primitive: how to find clean water, how to start a fire without matches, how to move silently through dangerous territory. Duration - 50m. Author - Carlos Mendoza. Narrator - Digital Voice Matt G. Published Date - Saturday, 18 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Carlos Mendoza ©.
Language:
English
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