The Ultroom Error

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The Ultroom Error

by Jerry Sohl

EN·~24 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

The Ultroom Error

24:22

Description

In a quiet Midwest suburb, Nancy Laughton’s ordinary afternoon turns into a bewildering nightmare when a stranger bursts onto her lawn, insisting he’s her brother and snatching her infant son. Before she can process the shock, a snarling dog lunges at the intruder, forcing him to drop the crying baby and retreat in terror. The incident leaves Nancy rattled and convinced she’s losing her grip on reality, while her husband Martin struggles to calm her and call the police.

As the local sergeant questions the Laughtons, the strange visitor’s motive remains unclear, and the family’s modest life—marked by a bank‑owned house and modest insurance job—appears suddenly vulnerable. A visiting doctor and his assistant arrive just as tension peaks, hinting that something beyond a simple home invasion may be at play. Listeners are drawn into a mix of domestic suspense and a subtle undercurrent of science‑fiction intrigue, wondering whether the “Ultroom” error is a glitch in time, a mis‑directed experiment, or something far stranger.

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Language

en

Duration

~24 minutes (23K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Feb 22, 2010

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Jerry Sohl

Jerry Sohl

1913–2002

A prolific science-fiction novelist and television writer, Jerry Sohl brought sharp speculative ideas to both the page and the screen. His work reached audiences through The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, alongside more than twenty novels.

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