And the Pendulum Swings

De: Jerry D. Young

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG The pendulum swings into nuclear war for a family and guests. EXCERPT As soon as she was within range of the low band VHF business band radio, Faith called home. She’d tried the cellular phone, without success. The system had gone down from overload shortly after the announcement of the approaching asteroid. She had barely hung up the microphone when she had to swerve to miss the car in front of her that was suddenly going much slower than before, with no show of brake lights. Then there was another. And a third. Finally, Faith took a second to look around and check her mirrors. Vehicles were stopping all over, some slowly taking the shoulder, others, without power steering when the engine died, losing control and winding up in the ditches or median, some in terrible accidents. It was that glance in the rearview mirror that Faith made that let her see a red Corvette back several cars. “Can’t be,” she muttered and put the thought it might be Anson out of her head. She had to make a quick decision. Stop and help or get home to help there. “Gotta be a HEMP device,” she muttered, slowing slightly as people began to wave at her to stop. “An asteroid impact couldn’t cause this… could it?” It was the sight of one man stepping out like the others, trying to wave her down, that had her making the decision to keep going. The man had a handgun and was pointing it at her in the Jeep. She gunned the engine and the Cummins 4BT diesel engine growled, bringing the Jeep back up to full speed, even with the trailer attached. It caught the man with the gun by surprise and he dove out of the way, without firing. Faith didn’t know, and wouldn’t have cared if she had known, that the man fired three shots at the quickly disappearing Jeep and trailer. All three missed widely.

• More Great Stories by Jerry D. Young

• The Hermit
• Low Profile
• Cowboy
• Home Sweet Bunker
• Habitat
• The Liddy Scenario
• Scavenger
• A Penny for Your Thoughts
• Ozark Retreat
• The Dark Times
• The Keys to the Kingdom
• Disaster in the Burbs
• Shipwrecked

And many more! ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Author Jerry D. Young has been a fixture in the survival and prepping communities for more than twenty years. The author of more than 100 novels and short stories, Jerry’s writing has been a staple for men and women of all ages and from all walks of life that are interested in prepping, survival, and all-around self-sufficiency. Jerry’s books are written with the goal of educating as well as entertaining and generally enjoyed by all who seek to expand their knowledge of prepping and survival topics while enjoying a good book or short story. As daunting as the end of the world, nuclear fallout, World War III, Civil unrest, economic collapse, solar flares, EMP attacks, and other apocalyptic scenarios may be, society has always been interested in the “What If?” of a Post-Apocalyptic World. Jerry’s stories provide interesting and practical perspectives of heroes and villains navigating Post-Apocalyptic scenarios including everything from Mad Max type of events to more relevant plot lines that seem as if they could have come from the headlines of the modern world. Find more about Jerry D. Young at www.CreativeTexts.com.

Not Bad. Forget the AI Voice

This short story had solid potential, it was engaging, well-paced, and had the framework of something memorable.

Unfortunately, much of that promise was undermined by the choice of narration. The story is delivered by an AI voice, which consistently struggled with pronunciation and completely missed the emotional beats that could have brought the narrative to life.

Virtual voice

I hate virtual voice…however I love Jerry D Young. I understand it’s cheaper, but the quality of his stories are also cheaper on audio books.