The Portal

By Roy D. Perkins
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Length7h 50m

About this audiobook

This is the story of Robert Pearson’s perilous encounters with a time portal. Robert begins his journeys as a twelve-year-old boy in 1955. During a blizzard, he discovers the portal as a means of escape. The catch is that while the portal saves Robert’s life in different time periods, it also always places him in jeopardy in another. Whenever Robert enters a new time period, it feels as though he’s lived there all his life; in most of them, he holds a position of authority. It seems that every place the portal transports Robert to is a potential trap. At times, Robert communicates with the portal, which is some kind of entity composed of both energy and matter, fluttering in and out of reality. While the portal never forces Robert to enter, it always leaves him with the same choice: flee or die. In the hospital, Robert tells everyone about his experiences, but no one believes him. However, the portal has dealt Robert an “Ace” that he doesn’t yet realize he holds.

Audiobook details

GenreScience Fiction
Length7 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 18, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Portal
2About the Author
3Dedication
4Introduction
5Chapter One Dogs, Snowballs, and Bare Feet
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6Chapter Two Bullets, Grenades, Machineguns, and Mortars
7Chapter Three Conservatives, Liberals, and Bipartisans
8Chapter Four Sea Trials, Crush Depth, and Implosion
9Chapter Five The Dessert, Indians, and Water
10Chapter Six Flight 800, A Missile, and Davey Jones’ Locker
11Chapter Seven A Prison Break, Survival, and Nowhere to Go
12Chapter Eight Outgunned, Outnumbered, and Surrounded
13Chapter Nine The Unsinkable Ship, the Ice Berg, and the Sinking
14Chapter Ten The Battlefield, the Charge, and the Retreat
15Chapter Eleven People Disappear, Chaos, and the Explanation
16Chapter Twelve Five Thousand Ships, Invasion, and the Beachhead
17Chapter Thirteen The Mountain, Injured, and the Coma
18Chapter Fourteen The Portal Briefly Returns
19Epilogue
20Copyright Information ©

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