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After the End

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In the wake of the false apocalypse, a woman returns alone to her looted home.

Fires burning a week after the false apocalypse, a bereaved wife returns alone to her looted home. Read by Lindsay Duncan.

A short story diptych written by the award-winning author Patrick Ness.


Read by Lindsay Duncan.


A newly bereaved wife returns alone to her looted home. One week on from the false apocalypse, the power is still down, the fires are still burning; people are starting to emerge, shame-faced, from their shelters, seeking food and information. As the widow walks to a hastily established food-bank, she glimpses the small boy who has shadowed her since she returned from the hospital. In his right hand he is carrying something precious; a small gift, a revelation.


The Mayans predicted that the world will end on 21st December 2012. These specially commissioned short stories explore the nature of endings through the eyes of a woman who loses everything on the day of revelation.


Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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A short story diptych written by the award-winning author Patrick Ness

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