The Gloaming

16 Organic Tales

By: Michael Hodges

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

From the mind behind the film-optioned debut The Puller comes Michael Hodges’ most ambitious collection yet. THE GLOAMING honors the gritty traditions of post-apocalyptic survival and First Contact suspense through 16 epic tales.
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Featured Stories from the Edge

Fletcher’s Mountains: In a world drained of oil and scorched by World War III, a lone survivor treks across a fractured America toward the sanctuary of a friend’s Montana cabin. But in the silence of the wilderness, he realizes he isn't just traveling—he’s being hunted.

Lost Planes, Lost River: When a fleet of Wildlife Service Cessnas falls from the sky during a controversial wolf-culling mission, the FBI is deployed to the crash sites. What they find suggests that the wolves aren't the only predators in the woods—and the "accidents" are anything but.

Hydra: A visionary scientist unlocks the secret to near-immortality, offering humanity a way to cheat the grave for decades. But the breakthrough carries a grim price: a biological imbalance that ensures humans will be the only living things left on Earth.

Gudmund’s Wolf: Sixty years ago, a wolf howled for Gudmund’s birthday. Today, the wolves are a myth, and Gudmund’s memories are following them into extinction. In this haunting tale of brotherhood and biological betrayal, two men wander into the deep uplands of the Michigan wilderness. One is searching for a way out; the other is searching for a way to say goodbye.