Evelyn Reed
Listen to The Spontaneous Disaster by Evelyn Reed as a bilingual audiobook with synchronized read-along text in English and Indonesian.
Clara had always been the kind of person who scheduled her weekends down to the exact minute. Her color-coded planner contained details about everything, from morning meditations to afternoon teas. However, on this sunny Saturday morning, a strange feeling came over her as she sat in her favorite local café. Looking around at the relaxed faces of other patrons, she suddenly felt that her structured life was remarkably dull. I am going to be entirely spontaneous today, she declared aloud to her rescue dog, Barnaby, who was resting beside her chair. Barnaby wagged his tail gently, appearing to offer his enthusiastic approval of her radical decision. Clara closed her planner with a decisive snap and pushed it deep into her linen tote bag. She promised herself that for the next six hours, she would make every single decision on impulse. No maps, no strict timetables, and absolutely no research would be permitted during this experiment. She finished her iced espresso and stood up, feeling an intoxicating rush of adventurous energy. Just outside the café, a bright yellow city bus pulled up to the curb with a loud hiss of air brakes.