fiction

time travel is false advertising. Time doesn’t really exist. It’s just a way for our minds to get around the vast and endless space that comprises our universe. That’s what the Puddle Jumpers say at least. They see everything as space, and time as an illusion.

Illusion or not, I’m tripping all over it.

Seven years ago I watched my father jump off a bridge into the Mississippi River never to be seen again, today I found him, and all I had to do was jump in myself.

What began as a search for my father and a potential way out, led me to my birthright as a Puddle Jumper. It also saddled me with a lead role in averting the destruction of our universe. I’ve been tossed back in history by the powers-that-be to make sure things go wrong, so that everything turns out all right. Battling through impossible scenarios, straddling the fine line between fate and free will and questioning my sanity every step of the way. I am hunted, by an evil family doctor, a doppelganger assassin and a father I might not know anymore. It’s a lot for an existentialist, Midwest teenager in love and possibly in need of medication to handle.

the speed at which i travel is the first in a series of novels that follow Gary Indiana through time, space, paranoia and heartbreak. It’s a coming of age story for whatever age you’re coming into.

I began the process by writing one episode at a time, each chapter created and posted right away to an audience that was/is following the story. It began as a Facebook novel version of serials, like Captain Marvel, Flash Gordon and Superman, which were film, radio and TV episodes that kids from the 30′s-50′s used to tune into or go to see religiously. I was raised by a father who would take me to old, revival movie houses in Los Angeles that would play these shorts before old feature films like Charlie Chan and The Thin Man. I fell in love with them and the genre and they’ve had a colorful impact on the way I express myself in story.

The Gary Indiana Series is also inspired by JJ Abrams’ “Mystery Box” a method that he has employed so well with Lost.

The Speed at Which I Travel is in manuscript form and I have begun work on the second title in the series.