ECHO OF THE VOID : THE AWAKENED Chapter 2: The Garden of Dreams Asher’s first days in the waking world were hard. He had been asleep for four hundred years. The world he woke to was not the world he had left. Earth was gone. The Odyssey was a wreck. The colony was small and fragile and … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE AWAKENED Chapter 1: The New World Five years had passed since the echo died. The world had changed. The Blight—the strange decay that had plagued Proxima since the first settlers arrived—was gone. The crops grew tall and golden. The rivers ran clear and cold. The forests teemed with life. … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 15: The Dawn — Book One Finale The light faded slowly, like mist burning off a lake at sunrise. Aris opened her eyes. She was lying in a field. Not the scarred battlefield of the dreamscape. Not the dying garden of her grandmother’s prison. A different field. … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 14: The Stand The field was burning. Not the gentle field of Aris’s dreams—the one with green grass and blue sky and lilies blooming in the sun. A different field. Dark and scarred, crisscrossed with trenches, littered with the bodies of sleepers who had fallen and could … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 13: The Counterstrike The echo did not wait. It struck that night, while the survivors slept, while the children dreamed, while the world was quiet. It struck through the sleepers. Not the ones who had woken. The ones who were still under. The ones who were still … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 12: The Weapon The laboratory was hidden beneath the compound. Aris had never known it existed. Neither had most of the survivors. It was Elara’s secret, a place she had built in the early years, when she still believed the echo could be destroyed. Now it was … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 11: The Lock The light was blinding. Not the light of the sun or the moon or the stars. A different light. A light that came from somewhere deeper than the world. A light that was Aris. She felt herself changing. Her body was no longer flesh … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 10: The Choice The basement was silent. Aris sat in the chair, the wires still attached to her temples, her wrists, her chest. The machine hummed softly, its lights pulsing in a slow, rhythmic pattern. Elara stood at the console, her old hands trembling, her eyes wet. … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 9: The Grandmother The world that formed around Aris was not a nightmare. It was a garden. Green and lush, filled with flowers she did not recognize, trees she had never seen, and a sky that was impossibly blue. The air was warm and sweet, smelling of … Read more
ECHO OF THE VOID : THE SLEEPERS Chapter 8: The Second Sleeper The days blurred together. Aris spent them in the basement, connected to the machine, diving into the dreamscape again and again. Each time, she found a sleeper. Each time, she fought the echo. Each time, she woke another soul from the nightmare. Lena … Read more
