Climate fiction narrator: Alice

Climate fiction narrator, warm, grounded, and emotive

Prompt: A warm, urgent female voice for climate fiction. Her clear mid-register is grounded and emotive, holding grief and resolve together, immersive and sincere. There's a we-saw-it-coming-and-still-we-love-this-world ache in her tone. The sound of a narrator who makes a drowned coastline feel like both a warning and an elegy.

Script: My grandmother remembered the coast the way it used to be. The old boardwalk, the summer crowds, the second street that's 12 feet underwater now and home only to fish. She never spoke of it bitterly. That surprised me, as a child. Later I understood. She wasn't mourning the beach.