Left for Bad
By James Bell Jr
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
A Watah Kik As Anime series. Nothing grows in the Dead Expanse — not trees, not grass, not hope left out in the open too long. Scrapyard Village survives on salvage, rationed water, and the decisions of the Bench: four bosses, four chairs, and a fifth seat that has sat empty since the Pit-Mining Boss never came back from the Dust Sea. Beyond the village stands the wall — and beyond the wall, someone eats well. Season One: 12 chapters. Written and created by James Bell Jr. Narrated by Steady Blanket (Zaira) and Twenty (Himzo). The books are on Amazon Kindle.
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Recent episodes
- Ep. 7 — The Doubled Watch
"Lord Edric's nervous about it, apparently. Which means everybody above me gets nervous about it too."Zaira's chapter. Three nights after the rider slowed at her grate, she still isn't sleeping — every time she closes her eyes she's back in that ditch, mud soaking through her clothes, watching him…
- Ep. 6 — Closer Than Either of Us Knew
He slowed his horse at the grate. Her grate. And studied the ground exactly where she had climbed out.Zaira's chapter. She has found the registry — a narrow building tucked behind Emberhold's outer administrative wing, beside an old well nobody draws water from anymore, guarded noticeably less…
- Ep. 5 — The Anomaly
"Probably an animal." That's what he tells them. It isn't true.Himzo's chapter. A servant has reported disturbed ground near the outer fields — flattened grass, one faint drag mark, running toward an old drainage grate nobody has thought about in years. Reports like that don't usually reach the…
- Ep. 4 — Green Ground
Two days inside the wall, and the most dangerous thing Zaira has found so far is kindness.Zaira's chapter, told from hiding. The people inside the wall are not starving the way the Dead Expanse starves — but they don't look entirely free either. Farmhands move through the grain fields at a pace…
- Ep. 3 — The Boy Who Learned Stillness
"Stillness itself. Nothing escapes it, and nothing from it escapes control."The story crosses the wall. This chapter is told from inside Emberhold, in the voice of Himzo Vaucresse — eighteen, the heir, and the keep's most carefully managed secret. In this dystopian audio fiction, power isn't…
- Ep. 2 — What's Under the Wall
"Made it."Zaira was supposed to wait a month, same as the Bench agreed. Instead — with her father asleep and her pack already hidden under her bedroll for exactly this night — she goes. This chapter of the post-apocalyptic audio drama is the crossing: one girl, one forgotten tunnel, and everything…
- Ep. 1 — The Bench
"Not tonight. Not quite yet."The Dead Expanse grows nothing — not trees, not grass, not hope left out in the open too long. This is Left for Bad, a post-apocalyptic audio drama told from outside the wall, in the voice of Zaira: nineteen, raised in Scrapyard Village, and one of the few people out…
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