The No Sleep Podcast has spent its 15th season

traveling down this lost highway. In the season finale, that journey has come to an end.

We are proud to conclude this season with a tale from author Jared Roberts.

This audio adaptation stars Kristen DiMecario as Julie, a woman thrust into a mind-bending world

where time, space and reality will be forever changed. Energy is all around us. It streams through

space. It warms us. It enlightens us. And it alters us. Embrace the change. Feel the heat.

Give it to us.

Let me paint you a little tablo. 2001, a perfect summer day. All breeze and birds.

By coincidence, the very day Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.

Two preteen girls. Their bronzed skin glistening with sunblock and sweat dance across the hot asphalt.

A gentle breeze scatters the hair of one, like sunbeams. They just been to the little beach down

the cul-de-sac for a swim. They're still laughing about the man who'd been watching them.

Now, they bask wantonly in the sun on plastic fuchsia lounge chairs. Not a care for the devastating

effects of UV. The peeping boys across the street. The death of Timothy McVeigh. Not a care at all.

It was the kind of day one of those girls thought of as pure, utter freedom. They had stayed up all

night watching late night TV until the info-murshals took over. They'd talked about boys and their hopes for

the future. Today was a day without a need to be or do anything. It just was. That girl flipped

idly through a tabloid for the caddy remarks about celebrity fashion. And nothing meant anything.

She hadn't even noticed her friend slip out of her lounge chair and head toward the road.

When she finally peered from over her neon green glasses, her friend was leaning against a post,

talking to a man. He leaned out of his car window. Snippets of conversation from the man,

Judy, the boys across the street, snippets floated over the breeze like strange leaves,

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