• Falls the Shadow

  • Warmer collection
  • By: Skip Horack
  • Narrated by: Ryan Burke
  • Length: 37 mins
  • 2.9 out of 5 stars (217 ratings)

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Falls the Shadow

By: Skip Horack
Narrated by: Ryan Burke
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Publisher's summary

A North Carolina combat vet finds himself far from home on the front lines of an environmental battle to save the planet in an award-winning author’s provocative story of a twenty-first-century Wild West.

Joel Dunbar, the last branch of an Appalachian family tree, accepts a mysterious invitation from a billionaire plutocrat to attend a conservation expo in San Francisco. The rock star environmentalist has startling plans for the future and a caveat for Joel: don’t ask too many questions, and don’t divulge any answers. But when Joel befriends a rebellious eco-friendly Arizona rancher, he’s roped into a new kind of war, with new kinds of casualties.

Skip Horack’s Falls the Shadow is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

©2018 Skip Horack (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Confused

The author spends most of the story describing details, that are irrelevant for the most part. Very little storytelling, no clue what his point was. Don’t waste your time.

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Interesting Story

Well-written, true to life story that could very well be happening right now. It hits the ground running and doesn't slow down for a minute. Excellent narration helps maintain the momentum.

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Meh.

Voice performance was excellent, unfortunately the story itself was only OK. There were a few good elements however it does not stick the landing.

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There Was A Story?

The performance was excellent, but there's no story. Not even a glimpse of a story.

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horrible and pointless

if there was an actual point it was so boring I couldn't even follow it while driving. The performance was the worst I've actually ever heard anybody ever do. I am not a writer but I am positive I can write better than this shit show I just listened to.

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It felt like the train actually jumped tracks...

What the hell happened to this story? I listened to it and felt that the end wasn't so much of a train wreck, but that the train actually jumped tracks and we ended up in a totally different story... It made my head swim, I even wondered if I'd missed part of it, and backed up to be sure. Nope, I didn't miss it, and it had to be the same story, cause our protagonist was there...
Narration was fine... hummm...

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story seemed flat

The story was pretty dull. I kept waiting for something interesting or a twist but in the end it was just pretty dull.

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Did Not Get It

The story was kind of lacking. The outcome un-fulfilling. Narration and characterization was good. For a casual listen it's "middling".

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Senseless

Well read, interesting characters, but pointless. I was left feeling disappointed, my time was wasted

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What? That's it?

I'm not sure I understand the point of this piece. it seemed to end very abruptly with no real point or conclusion to the story. The narrator was mostly fine, but perhaps a bit boring.

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