LISTENSING: From the Collapse Chronicles - Volume I (LISTENING Book 1) Kindle Edition

The trucks stopped at 2:17 a.m. on a Wednesday. Not because the engines failed. They still turned over fine. The world they were built to serve simply stopped existing.LISTENING, from the Collapse Chronicles, is a speculative fiction series told through recovered documents — spiral notebooks, Sharpie-scrawled menus, charcoal ceilings, torn atlas pages — pulled from the wreckage of a civilization that fractured along faults nobody wanted to name.In Volume I, a trucker begins writing in a parking lot outside Topeka. His name is Geox. As his entries accumulate — alongside a schoolteacher counting days in Fort Collins and a copywriter documenting the rise and fall of a mall that became the last marketplace in America — a signal emerges. Not metaphorical. Alive. It threads through the landscape of the American West, pulling Geox north through Wyoming toward a tower that is either waiting for him or building itself from his arrival.Following his trail six months later is Dr. Mara Ewell, a structural biologist sent to collect signal data who finds herself instead collecting a man's unraveling. Her field notes frame each entry, cataloging what the locations look like now, what has grown in the silence, and what the documents refuse to say. She starts as a scientist. She does not finish as one.LISTENING is a novel about the quiet kind of collapse. The kind where a man in clean clothes decides his thirst matters more than a stranger's child.Volume I spans twenty-six entries, two timelines, and one corridor of highway where the distance between observer and observed has been dissolving since before either of them started writing. It is the first volume of the LISTENING series, rooted in Geoffrey Taber's Fracturism framework. Read more