Aware

A strange storm blows through the small town of Temperanceville, Pennsylvania, population 746. Heather Crane discovers after the storm that she can hear the thoughts of people around her. A scary condition once she realizes the townsfolk all share a single thought: "Heather Crane must die!" Is she actually hearing people's thoughts or only losing her own mind? If she is hearing their true thoughts, then why do the people she's called friends all of her life want her dead? She needs answers and wants to run away, but Heather finds that even in a small rural town no matter where you go there's always someone around. Can Heather find the answers she seeks in time, or will the population of Temperanceville soon drop by one...?

About the Author

Bud Bane is a product of rural southwestern Pennsylvania. He has an unnatural fear of the living and an unnerving intimacy with the unknown.Growing up among the blue collar working class of the suburbs and boroughs around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bud learned first hand how people faced adversities. It was a time when the region was nearly losing its character through the collapse of the steel industry and manufacturing. That shift had wide reaching tentacles and affected everyone in the area.Bud remembers a time as a teenager, when he bagged groceries at a local chain store, along side of a former steel worker as well as a former vice-president of a major financial institution. In other words, during this time nobody was safe from the horrors of the shifting economy.Watching so many face so much, and find ways to reinvent themselves left an indelible impression on Bud, along with a healthy respect for the human spirit.This is reflected in the tales Bud writes. Regardless the outcome of a tale, as in life we sometimes win and sometimes lose, the stories Bud writes are about the struggle of the character from beginning to end, stripping away the thin veils we all wear to spotlight the nobility of humanity when facing great odds.

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