I, Hesitant

I'm sure anyone who has been bitten by the so called Midnight Disease knows what I'm talking about but I'll try to explain it for everyone else.

My brain is carbonated.

Bubbles are expanding and exploding all along my brain stem. Each burst is a symbol, a signal, a sign, a vision of some poor chap's future.

I've invented him and I will destroy him.

Writing is masturbation. It really is.

For the past few months and years really, I've had this idea build in my brain. Bricks of thought stacked upon one another until the sad tale of protagonist could rival Giza. I literally can not have a moment wherein I don't think about the assorted jerks who've moved into my brain and are immovable.

I had this before, several times, except for the most part it has been for shorts and flashes not for BIG projects as the one I'm currently incubating. The only other time my percolating muse has been this insistent for a novel, I started too too soon and got hung up in a desert somewhere in Southern California with no real reason to return to the city.

So I'm hesitant. I've these great characters and a whole journal of notes but I'm a might gunshy on beginning. There's always more research!

Or maybe I'm lazy.

Teaser://A City Named Fortress

In 2099 mankind has stumbled upon it's greatest discovery...The Focal Point. All Time merges at a single spot, a city named Fortress. Here time travel is as easy as taking a deep breath and leaping into the Stream.

It is left to a small group of Regulators to police the myriad universes. When the timelines have been altered they enter to place it back on track.

One day the Stream is split into seven distinct parallel universe and is threatening to destroy everything and every time.

One man, The Traveler, must enter each divergent history and set right what has been wronged. However, sometimes the only way to fix it is to contemplate evil.

This is a novel project that while very scifi, isn't meant to be a ripoff of Jean Claude Van Damme's Timecop. Really it started from a drunken thought, "What would the world be like if X didn't happen. Just changing one thing, just one, what would be the effect? For example the first scenario I came up with was someone stopped James Earl Ray from assassinating Martin Luther King. Seems noble enough. Except with him not dying the country doesn't have a civil rights martyr to circle around and so 1964 Civil Rights Act never happens. To set this right, The Traveler must in turn assassinate MLK himself.

It's more an exercise on what the phrase, "the Greater Good" would actually entail.

Teaser://Masada

Israel Gershom Ben David is your typical boy in his early thirties. He likes football, videogames, and pulling bongloads with his best friend Eli. To the outside world everything about him is normal.

That is until he is the only survivor of a plane crash.

This event springs a compulsion for Israel to go to Pittsburgh to find a man named Sam.

The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

A question of identity is raised:

Israel Ben David just might be the Messiah
Israel Ben David just might be the Antichrist