Time Out

Missing collection

By: Claudia Rowe

Narrated by: JD Jackson

The riveting true story of the crime, punishment, and transformation of a Seattle boy who came of age inside the adult prison system and who, once on the outside, rebuilt a new life as a man.

After twenty years of incarceration, little was familiar to newly released Willard Jimerson. His once-gritty city was a technology hub. An African American was president. And with a six-inch screen, he could access a vastly changed world. From Claudia Rowe, author of The Spider and the Fly, comes the story of the life Willard took and the life taken from Willard, the story of everything he had to regain and was yet to discover.

Claudia Rowe’s Time Out is part of Missing, a collection of six true stories about finding, restoring, or accepting the losses that define our lives - from the mysterious to the inspiring. Each story can be listened to in a single sitting.

©2018 Claudia Rowe (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

A True Story of Hope and Redemption

I located this book in my library and I don’t know when I picked it up and I’m not positive it’s an actual story but it certainly reads like one. Willard is a fourteen year old junior high student in Seattle who lives with his grandparents and runs the streets at night after managing to kiss his girlfriend through her ground floor window until she shoos him away. One night while running with a pack of his pals, he meets up with Jamie whom he met once before and had obtained her phone number but she never responded to his calls. For some reason, a teen scuffle broke out and Willie fired a few bullets with no intention to kill but to show his power: unfortunately this was a terrible mistake and Jamie ended up dead so the judicial system placed this child in an adult prison for the next 2 decades! Willard took advantage of his ability to read and spent much time with books from the library and took classes inside until he graduated with further education. Once he was released, society had changed a great deal (especially with technology) and he dedicated his new chance to learning this and to holding down a reasonably respectable job. I don’t want to give out more spoilers but Willard does care about involving himself with youth and making them aware that one thoughtless bad action can carry lifetime consequences but he models hope and inspiration that one’s path can be one of self-forgiveness as much as possible. If he meets up with his adolescent girlfriend is a possibility he considered … and well, you can read about this for yourself.
The short story takes just over an hour to read so there is not much depth to the prison experience or its aftermath but I did grow to care about what happens to the main character so the message of his life slowly changing for the better was important to know…and to celebrate!

awsome

omg sooo good its is sad thats he had to learn the hard way and so young.

Eye opening account

Touch to hear how this lost boy has evolved into a man under the given circumstances

Enjoyed

Enjoyed listening to this book. Good narration. Would have loved yo hear more of this.

Prediction of life gone wrong

The reader voice was calm when I thought emotion was required. Never the less, I remained caught out in the remarkable story of redention. How a 14 year old boy was transformed through the stories of other AA men who experience redemption.

I wonder how many predictions made by adults have gone wrong.

I stop marvel at the his beginning and his existence now, I know the circle was completed just so he could save others!.

A very good read for a short book, less than 4 chapters. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.