Sign-In
Cart
Do Not Worry About the Voices
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 19 2025
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He wakes alone in a ruined city, surrounded by crumbling buildings, broken streets, and a sky that feels heavy with unfinished history. He has no memory of who he is or how the world came to this, only the certainty that something is wrong. As he moves through the devastation, he begins to hear voices-unfamiliar, overlapping, and impossible to understand. They don't guide him. They don't threaten him. They simply exist, watching from just beyond reach.
The city offers no clear answers. Destruction appears uneven and deliberate, as if shaped by intention rather than chance. A shadowed figure drifts at the edge of his perception, always distant, always connected, though the nature of that connection remains unclear. Each step forward brings flashes of recognition without context, and the unsettling sense that time itself may not be behaving as expected.
With a noir-inflected tone and a slow-burn sense of dread, this science-fiction novella explores isolation, perception, and the fragile line between observation and experience. Nothing is explained outright. Every answer suggests another question. As reality begins to feel less stable than the ruins themselves, the story invites the reader to decide what is being witnessed-and what may be shaping the view.
Not all awakenings lead forward. Some lead somewhere else entirely.
Also in
Mystery & Thriller
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
Coffin Road: An Utterly Gripping Crime Thriller from the Author of the China Thrillers
May, Peter
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
Larsson, Stieg
Paperback
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
Big Little Truths: Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane
Hardcover
The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River
Lawhon, Ariel
Hardcover