Lesson for Today

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Lesson for Today

by Joel Nydahl

EN·~13 minutes

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Description

In a shattered world where radiation has turned the landscape into a wasteland, a mother and her infant wander beneath an invisible barrier that has inexplicably shielded them from the devastation. As they move through the ruins of a once‑familiar city, they receive mysterious packages of alien food and hear a disembodied voice cataloguing their every step, hinting at a hidden intelligence watching their struggle.

Driven by a desperate hope of finding the father she lost in the chaos, she pushes onward across a barren countryside, clutching her child tightly while the remnants of humanity linger only as ghostly silhouettes. The narrative weaves tension and wonder, asking why these two survive when everything else perished and what purpose the unseen observers might have. Listeners are drawn into a stark, haunting journey that balances raw survival with the unsettling presence of an alien perspective, leaving the mystery of the protective dome and its makers to unfold.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~13 minutes (12K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

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

Release date

2021-08-27

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

JN

Joel Nydahl

A mid-century science fiction writer whose work appeared in pulp magazines and later found new readers through Project Gutenberg. Little biographical information seems to survive, which gives his stories an extra air of old-magazine mystery.

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