The Ashen Lands
Maarten van der Veld
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
The morning sun cast long shadows through the skeletal remains of what had once been the city of New Geneva. Elena Vasquez adjusted the filtration mask over her nose and mouth, feeling the familiar weight of her collection pack against her shoulders. Twenty-three years had passed since the Great Burning, and still the air carried traces of ash that would catch in your throat if you breathed too deeply without protection.
She made her way carefully through the rubble-strewn street, her boots crunching on fragments of glass and concrete. The Geiger counter clipped to her belt clicked sporadically, its rhythm as familiar as her own heartbeat. This sector registered clean enough for a few hours of scavenging, though she would need to return to the outer settlements before the afternoon winds picked up and carried the more dangerous particles from the inner zones.
Elena had been born three years after the Burning, in one of the hastily constructed refugee camps that had sprung up beyond the contamination zones. She had no memory of the world before, when these streets had bustled with traffic and the buildings had reached toward the sky with gleaming confidence. That world existed only in the stories told by the Rememberers, the aging survivors who carried the weight of lost civilization in their voices.
Her assignment today was specific: locate and retrieve any intact medical equipment from the ruins of Geneva General Hospital. The settlement's medic, Dr. Sarah Chen, had put in the request after their last surgical kit finally gave out during a difficult childbirth. Three babies had been born in the settlement this month, a hopeful sign that perhaps their small community was beginning to thrive rather than merely survive.
Duration - 56m.
Author - Maarten van der Veld.
Narrator - Digital Voice Archie G.
Published Date - Thursday, 23 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2025 Maarten van der Veld ©.
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United States
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Celestial Publishing
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The morning sun cast long shadows through the skeletal remains of what had once been the city of New Geneva. Elena Vasquez adjusted the filtration mask over her nose and mouth, feeling the familiar weight of her collection pack against her shoulders. Twenty-three years had passed since the Great Burning, and still the air carried traces of ash that would catch in your throat if you breathed too deeply without protection. She made her way carefully through the rubble-strewn street, her boots crunching on fragments of glass and concrete. The Geiger counter clipped to her belt clicked sporadically, its rhythm as familiar as her own heartbeat. This sector registered clean enough for a few hours of scavenging, though she would need to return to the outer settlements before the afternoon winds picked up and carried the more dangerous particles from the inner zones. Elena had been born three years after the Burning, in one of the hastily constructed refugee camps that had sprung up beyond the contamination zones. She had no memory of the world before, when these streets had bustled with traffic and the buildings had reached toward the sky with gleaming confidence. That world existed only in the stories told by the Rememberers, the aging survivors who carried the weight of lost civilization in their voices. Her assignment today was specific: locate and retrieve any intact medical equipment from the ruins of Geneva General Hospital. The settlement's medic, Dr. Sarah Chen, had put in the request after their last surgical kit finally gave out during a difficult childbirth. Three babies had been born in the settlement this month, a hopeful sign that perhaps their small community was beginning to thrive rather than merely survive. Duration - 56m. Author - Maarten van der Veld. Narrator - Digital Voice Archie G. Published Date - Thursday, 23 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Maarten van der Veld ©.
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