Spliced

The Divided Worlds

By: Yesh Yonas

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Spliced: The Divided Worlds

For one thousand years a glowing barrier has split the old United States in two. On one side, the Superiors live in gleaming towers, guarded by drones and governed by strict order. On the other, the Halfers struggle in broken streets where survival is measured in credits and every voice is watched. The wall has stood so long that people have forgotten a time before it, but even the strongest barrier can tremble.

When Kairo teaches his people to breathe as one, the shimmer shakes for the first time in centuries. The Council brands him a criminal and parades him in chains, but his name refuses to disappear. Selene, daughter of a powerful Councilor, must decide whether to protect her father’s order or the truth she cannot unsee. Nara, Kairo’s sister, finds her courage rising against fear. And Mira, a strategist who trusts no system, knows that even a thousand years of control can collapse in a single moment of unity.

The Council calls it order. The people call it memory. And across both halves of a divided nation, a question spreads louder than commands: how long can the barrier stand once the world begins to see through it?