Echo Lives

by April D. Brown

As the birth of her first child nears, Kalara is plagued by dreams she doesn't understand. They assert themselves in her drawings. Pictures of people and places that disappeared after the Devolution War.
Shalin dreams of peace, and the world Kalara lives in. Of beauty and calm. Species of plants and animals she didn't know could exist. That peace brings her hope. Keeps her going through poverty, and fear, as her son faces punishing challenges.
Leonard has the same ties as his mother, Kalara. However, he begins to recognize, with the help of friends, that all isn't as peaceful as it seems in Galataria. The connection he plans to build to Jendal, is forgotten, for awhile.
For Jendal, the dreams of Leonard, and his ability to be accepted in his community, keep him going, hoping, trying to make Earth as peaceful as the world he can't quite reach.

Ties bind them together, between worlds. Bringing a bit of both worlds across the bridge into the other. Both worlds are threatened with ideas, and a life most don't recognize, and many fear.

40 Chapters
80,963 Words
6 X 9 - 291 pages
7 X 10 - 343 pages

291 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2020

About the author

April D Brown's fascination with history, science, and social science led her on a quest to uncover forgotten societal mythology, which often masquerades as fact. New solutions to old queries will be uncovered in the future, through studies of the past. Her novels and novellas, while adventures, are written in a more clean and classical style, without extreme action, romance, or violence. Characters think before they act. Sometimes, this leads to trouble.

Her nonfiction is often written at the request of others.

Gluten (and allergy) free cookbooks, include tips for tricks for people with multiple common disabilities, including poor memory, low vision, and limited dexterity.

Journey Through Life Lists was written at the request of friends with serious memory loss planning their future, and desperate to remember their past.

VoiceOver with the Brailliant Braille Display was designed for personal use, when there was no written manual for learning to use a screen reader for the first time as a middle-aged adult.

The clear path April D Brown dreamed of as a child had roadblocks no one could foresee. Of those, the loss of memory caused far more concern, than the loss of hearing and vision.

Deafblind and doing fine, most of the time.
After all, vision, and hearing, can be internal, as well as external. With the help of her husband, cats, and dogs, she wanders along the path that unfolds slowly before her stumbling feet. The one path she tried to push away as a teen.

Writing doesn't come as easy now, as then. Though, it seems far more impactful. Full of hidden vision, wonder, and forgotten sounds and odors.