{"id":3521,"date":"2025-03-31T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2025-04-20T19:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:25:31","slug":"the-fractured-world-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/2025\/03\/31\/the-fractured-world-chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fractured World &#8211; Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Voices Of America: RLO - Stories Of America: The Fractured World By Alin - Chapter 2: Breach protocol - E02 S01\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3zYjCUAoOKPtx8TGfBJtlI?si=C0giV4EvQwKi74jogfuhdQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fractured World &#8211; Chapter 2<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The virus awakens. The lab implodes. And the truth behind XR259.5 begins to reveal itself\u2014not as a pathogen, but as an evolving force with intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this second chapter, Jennifer and Professor Haji face a near-catastrophic breach as the virus attempts to hijack the university\u2019s X-Ray generator, threatening to plunge Chicago into critical collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they uncover leads them back to Chernobyl, to the Elephant\u2019s Foot\u2026 and to a long-lost soldier in stasis who may hold the only antidote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rated MPAA PG13 &#8211; Intense realistic scenes of pandemics, warfare, death (clinical) and nuclear history sites that may be disturbing for younger listeners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PDF to follow along: Coming soon (editing needed and still writing further chapters. Expected by 04\/30\/25) (The PDF will be partial and will be updated as needed. The Fractured World is an episodic biohorror thriller that could last for up to a 3 year run if reception is strong.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fractured World &#8211; Chapter 2 &#8220;The virus awakens. The lab implodes. And the truth behind XR259.5 begins to reveal itself\u2014not as a pathogen, but as an evolving force with intent. In this second chapter, Jennifer and Professor Haji face a near-catastrophic breach as the virus attempts to hijack the university\u2019s X-Ray generator, threatening to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27,15],"tags":[26,29,28],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbank-action-thriller","category-straps-audiobooks","category-straps-videozone","tag-rated-mpaa-r-eu16-strong-language","tag-spotify-audio","tag-spotify-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingmediaproductions.com\/sterling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}