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Z

by Charles L. Fontenay

EN·~48 minutes·1 chapter

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1 total
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48:25

Description

A sudden summer thunderstorm turns a quiet town park into a theater of the uncanny. When the lightning flashes, a naked woman and man emerge from the charred brush, the woman pressing a kiss to the bewildered narrator and insisting she loves him. Their sudden appearance, stripped of clothes and memory, leaves him grappling with a mix of shock, curiosity, and humor.

He drags the bewildered pair to his friend, a local policeman, and together they try to provide shelter while piecing together the strangers’ story. The couple claim to be Summer and Wyn Storm, yet their address leads to an empty lot, and they can’t recall where they came from. Whispers of quantum oddities and time‑reversal theories swirl, suggesting that the storm may have torn a seam in reality itself.

As the narrator wrestles with the possibility of a scientific explanation versus something far more mysterious, the listener is drawn into a quirky, thought‑provoking puzzle that lingers long after the rain stops.

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Language

en

Duration

~48 minutes (46K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

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

Release date

2019-05-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Charles L. Fontenay

Charles L. Fontenay

1917–2007

A veteran newspaperman who also became a prolific science fiction writer, he brought a reporter’s eye for detail to stories about alien worlds, future societies, and human nature. His work ranges from brisk adventure to thoughtful speculation, with a long career that stretched well beyond the magazine era of 1950s SF.

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