The Green Meadow

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.


In “The Green Meadow,” an isolated narrator awakens in a strange, alien landscape between a sinister green forest and a distant, luminous meadow across blue water, with only fragments of memory and an overwhelming sense of cosmic dread. As the piece of land beneath him breaks away and drifts across the sea, he senses that the forest harbors hostile, sentient forces, while the radiant meadow exerts a terrible fascination and eerie promise of safety. Drawn toward it by an unseen current and the sound of an immense waterfall, he hears chanting from within the meadow and gradually realizes that both the place and his own condition are part of a horrifying transformation beyond ordinary life and death. At the moment he finally understands the nature of the beings in the meadow and the fate awaiting him, the revelation becomes too dreadful to describe, and the surviving text breaks off as he faces an eternal, inescapable existence.