The huntress

audiobook

The huntress

by Richard Rein Smith

EN·~11 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
1

11:12

Description

A weary salesman cruising down a deserted highway finds a striking hitchhiker perched on a billboard, her presence both beguiling and unsettling. Their impromptu conversation drifts from the mundane to the philosophical, touching on destiny, space travel, and the thrill of danger, while the glow of his headlights casts her in an almost otherworldly light.

As the night deepens, the pair detours to a lonely log‑cabin on the forest’s edge, the surrounding silence broken only by the whisper of wind and distant traffic. The air feels charged with an uncanny tension, hinting that the woman’s beauty may conceal a far darker secret. Listeners are drawn into a tense, lyric‑rich thriller where every spoken word and lingering glance could be a step toward a hidden paradise—or a deadly trap.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~11 minutes (10K characters)

Release date

2026-05-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

RR

Richard Rein Smith

b. 1930

A historian and translator with a deep interest in East Asia, he wrote extensively about Korea and Japan and helped bring classic French adventure fiction to English-language readers.

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