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  • Shorter of Breath

  • 8-Tracks. Aliens. Korea. Edmonton. And a Chance to Leave Lame-o Millennial Culture for the '70s!
  • By: Ken Eckert
  • Narrated by: Kenneth Eckert
  • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins

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Shorter of Breath

By: Ken Eckert
Narrated by: Kenneth Eckert
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Summary

Leisure suits! Muscle cars! An annoyingly ethical cocktail-loving alien! Social justice radicals! Time-traveling terrorist music critics! Just like Jane Austen used to write!

Why couldn’t Alan be cool like people in the ‘70s? After breaking up with his girlfriend Sheila and unsatisfyingly teaching English in South Korea, he befriends an alien grad student, Coff, who lets him time travel to swingin’ 1967 England to live out his retro-boogie fantasy. But now 70 years old in Edmonton, Canada, Alan takes a chance in meeting Sheila again to confess his past. That causes problems in time that Coff will need more than Fleetwood Mac and fuzzy dice to fix. When time-flow conflicts result in them being harassed by university radicals and half-real fictional characters out to prevent Starship from recording "We Built This City" in 1985, Alan, Coff, and Sheila must travel to a San Francisco disco in 1979 for a final showdown against the time-terrorists.

Shorter of Breath is an enjoyable romp through expat life in Korea, retro '70s culture, and classic rock music.

©2017 Kenneth Eckert (P)2023 Kenneth Eckert
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