Mock Reach

by David J. Salisbury

If you were alone in a room, if the sounds all around you deepened and slowed, the light dimmed and color lost its richness, if the second hand on the clock across the room took two seconds to tick, then five… If you couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe, could do nothing but observe as time got slower, lights got darker, sounds got deeper… Were you dying? Were you losing your grip on reality? If you heard a voice…

318 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 25, 2023

About the author

David J. Salisbury enjoyed reading from a young age. He always enjoyed writing and even took a creative writing class in high school, where his writing days ended as far as he knew. He went to a two-year college in upstate New York on a general engineering curriculum designed as a steppingstone into a four-year school but changed curriculums after spending a year working with engineers.
In his twenties and thirties, he wrote a series of extremely short stories in his spare time, with his brother as the only intended reader. Both David and his brother enjoyed the stories, but somewhere along the way, they were all lost.
At 42 years old, David started writing another short story, again, only intended for his brother to read. That first page of text became the Orris Project, and David discovered that he not only could write full novels but loved doing it.

Reviews

[Cara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a Goodreads giveaway!

This was definitely a feel good Sci-fi book but I would have loved to have more of the physics/science explained.

[Mica Arnett · Rating 1 out of 5]

Made it 50% and nothing in the plotline kept me interested

[Sarah Thrift · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a Goodreads giveaway.

I could see where it wanted to be, but it just didn’t get there for me. The plot just didn’t pull me in or beg me to keep reading.