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Awake: Finding Dad
Due to the depletion of earth's resources, scientists have come up with a plan. If the earth could be free from human interference for just twenty short years, it would renew itself. In order to accomplish that the entire human race would have to be placed in suspended animation.
Get ready to hit the SAC and have the best rest of your life.
Trusting the government with his life and the lives of his parents doesn't come easy for Timothy Stone, especially since his father has Alzheimer's. Waking up and finding his father missing is just the beginning of things that go wrong. Before Tim can figure things out, he must find his father, first.
Get ready to hit the SAC and have the best rest of your life.
Trusting the government with his life and the lives of his parents doesn't come easy for Timothy Stone, especially since his father has Alzheimer's. Waking up and finding his father missing is just the beginning of things that go wrong. Before Tim can figure things out, he must find his father, first.
40 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2014
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About the author
James M. McCracken
19 books4 followersJames M. McCracken was born and raised in Oregon. He is the fifth of seven children. He lost his mother when he was eighteen. That is why family has always been important to him and features prominently in the stories he writes.
However, his love for writing began when he was a teen. At age 13 he went away to a seminary boarding school. It was there that he began to write but mainly for his own entertainment. He felt his ideas and stories weren't "good enough" to share. That changed his senior year when he saw a movie poster. The movie's storyline was the same as a story he had written two years earlier. He reasoned "If two people could have the same idea, then maybe my ideas aren't stupid after all."
It took another twenty years of writing while working full-time at the telephone company before his first novel was published, SECRETS The Wallace Family.
With the major shift and changes in the publishing industry, James turned to self-publishing, reasoning that authors Mark Twain, John Grisham, J. K. Rowling and many others self-published their own novels in the beginning before being picked up by 'traditional publishing' houses.
Two years after the release of his first novel, James published the first book in a new young reader series inspired by his teen years in a boarding school. CHARLIE MACCREADY The Ghost in the Attic. When the second in the series came out, problems with the foreign publishing company caused him to cancel his contract with them and go another route.
After retiring early from the telephone company, James began to focus more time to his writing. He has now broadened his range venturing into writing Sci-Fi with a post-apocalyptic novel AWAKE and also into Thrillers/Suspense with ELLENSBURG and STUMPTOWN.
In 2009 he left the Portland area and moved to Central Oregon where the quieter, slower-paced life affords him more time to focus and write.
However, his love for writing began when he was a teen. At age 13 he went away to a seminary boarding school. It was there that he began to write but mainly for his own entertainment. He felt his ideas and stories weren't "good enough" to share. That changed his senior year when he saw a movie poster. The movie's storyline was the same as a story he had written two years earlier. He reasoned "If two people could have the same idea, then maybe my ideas aren't stupid after all."
It took another twenty years of writing while working full-time at the telephone company before his first novel was published, SECRETS The Wallace Family.
With the major shift and changes in the publishing industry, James turned to self-publishing, reasoning that authors Mark Twain, John Grisham, J. K. Rowling and many others self-published their own novels in the beginning before being picked up by 'traditional publishing' houses.
Two years after the release of his first novel, James published the first book in a new young reader series inspired by his teen years in a boarding school. CHARLIE MACCREADY The Ghost in the Attic. When the second in the series came out, problems with the foreign publishing company caused him to cancel his contract with them and go another route.
After retiring early from the telephone company, James began to focus more time to his writing. He has now broadened his range venturing into writing Sci-Fi with a post-apocalyptic novel AWAKE and also into Thrillers/Suspense with ELLENSBURG and STUMPTOWN.
In 2009 he left the Portland area and moved to Central Oregon where the quieter, slower-paced life affords him more time to focus and write.
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June 18, 2015
Although the premise of this short story has a great deal of promise, I found it dry. The story is told from Tim's point of view, in first person. Despite that, we learn very little of what he thinks or feels, and some parts plod with dull recitation of events. 'I did this, I did that, I did the other thing.' Every part of this story screamed out for emotional investment yet had none. The characters are, at best, vague.
It also suffers from some mild editorial problems that another read-through could resolve.
The story itself is an interesting idea, and despite its shortcomings, I'm interested in how it progresses in the next installment of the serial. It's a post-apocalyptic survival tale, about starting from not-quite-nothing and trying to rebuild some kind of life and meaning. This is also a very quick read, taking me about an hour and a half to breeze through.
It also suffers from some mild editorial problems that another read-through could resolve.
The story itself is an interesting idea, and despite its shortcomings, I'm interested in how it progresses in the next installment of the serial. It's a post-apocalyptic survival tale, about starting from not-quite-nothing and trying to rebuild some kind of life and meaning. This is also a very quick read, taking me about an hour and a half to breeze through.
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