Audible Dune Novels & Stories

he replied. The doors opened. Light flooded in. Every eye turned. Aruna took her first step. Nothing happened. Second step. Still nothing. Her breath stayed even. Halfway down the aisle, she felt it. A vibration underfoot. Not an explosion. A shift. She froze. Dante felt it too. He tightened his grip imperceptibly. “Stop,” he murmured. The music faltered. Whispers rippled. Adrian’s voice echoed suddenly through hidden speakers.

The heed of the audience was no longer on Kyle, but on the young man who appeared on the screen. 'Danise?' Kyle mouthed, his eyes widening in shock. Kyle immediately hopped over the steel barricades and dashed up the stairs while fixing his sight on where the spotlight was. The ecstatic cheers of the crowd once again electrified the atmosphere as he drew nearer to his adoring fans. Hundreds of hands reached out to touch him, and a multitude of notebooks were thrust in his direction. Nevertheless, he paid no heed to the distractions and continued on his determined path, undeterred by the chaotic excitement around him.

Not even the sound of a nesting bird broke the silence. I looked down and saw in surprise that I was wearing a dark red cloak with a huge gold emblem resting heavily against my chest. Even more surprising was the fact that I was barefooted. My bare feet rested on a wet mossy rock. When I lifted my leg to clear some of the moss there was no sound. Nothing at all. It was quiet. Then a slight ruffling, silent as a whisper, broke the silence. Like a rabbit digging a hole. The ruffle came again. This time it was louder. Something was moving. It was coming from the densely packed trees in front of me.

A sound like the soft chirping of birds, the sensuous rain on the windowsill, the rustling of yellowed leaves on a beautiful autumn morning. They entered in the middle of the crowd and Jimmy's eyes grew bigger. Taegen was sitting at a huge, shining black instrument that looked like the sky on a cool summer night, coaxing impossibly soothing and amazing melodies from it. He seemed lost as his fingers flew over the keys like swallows darting in a pond for fish. He raised his head and stared at Jimmy, his eyes shifting to the shiny sapphire blue, making the boy's heart leap out of his chest. "It has been years," Ruvyn mumbled, not believing what he is watching.

“At Blackwood, danger doesn’t always come with a knife. Sometimes it comes in a glass.” ♠️ MARLENE ♠️ My phone rang just as I was stepping out of the car. I almost ignored it. I shouldn’t have. “Marlene.” Dre’s voice came through the line—tight, urgent, stripped of its usual humor. “You need to come to the mansion. Now.” My chest tightened instantly. “What happened?” There was a pause. The kind that tells you everything before words even follow.

There was a murmur of surprise and disbelief. “Sounds like Shai-Hulud,” said Maurice knowingly. “Is that a Dune reference?” I said, regretting it immediately. “Yes. And it’s pronounced Doon.” “No, it isn’t,” I said. Maurice was too deep in his element to be distracted by the nay-saying of plebs like myself. “The giant sandworms, the Shai-Hulud, roam the planet Arrakis as servants of the gods.” There’s never a giant worm around when you need one. I’d have gladly walked into its yawning gullet at that moment.

Afraid this isn't going to work with the amount of damage that's been done to him. At that exact moment he hears a beautiful angelic voice in the background as Addison starts to hum her tune. This tune sounds different. The melody is different and there's more power behind it, it's also louder. Aiden can see and feel the sparkling dust as it floats down around them. The wind that is violently swirling around them seems to have no effect on this strange dust as it gently flutters down onto them. Julian clings to Addison as she wraps her arms around him. The wind seems to not affect either one of them. Not even their hair is moving from the wind.

Her red eyes sparkled as her nails shifted to sharp claws and her skin drifted to a hairy white fur. Perceiving the danger lurking around, he leaped to his feet and escaped. "My sister craves faggots like you" she laughed softly as she watched him go. The earth began to shift and fold beneath him. The dark soil began to change to coarse brown sands. Everything around him vanished leaving a vast flat landscape of sand. He was confused and frightened. He was all alone and he felt alone. He had trekked for many miles yet he did not know where he was or where he is going neither has he come across any person. Weaving through the winding dunes of the desert, the sky gave clear but rosy hues marre