Here for your reading enjoyment is my novel DOWNSTEP.
The chapters are in the right hand column but also at the bottom of each chapter for continuity.
For more clarity concerning this novel of the future, read:
I do hope you get some kind of laugh or thrill out of this work.
While penning DOWNSTEP, I had continual help and input from my beloved wife Singingwolf, who is the best editor on planet earth and a very wise person when it comes to ideas that make the great and powerful archetypical stories of the dream-time. She is also very good with grammar and spelling. Nuff said.
I also had input from several wonderful Hobbits who took the time to read my original first draft, and write very constructive critiques.
I did use about 99% of their suggestions in my second draft.
I especially want to thank Michael, Allyson and all the Hobbits who each influenced this more than they know, just because of who and what they are.
My deepest love and appreciation to them all.
In the Spirit they are all my precious children.
And to Ruth, my precious daughter, to whom this work is dedicated. Thanks for incarnating here amongst us in such a timely fashion. This work “Downstep,” is 61 chapters long.
It was completed in 2005, but has been undergoing refinement ever since.
Perhaps as you read this, you can … SEE IT?
Yes, you are right. It IS a movie or will be … wishful thinking perhaps … but … I certainly hope Jodie Foster is still alive by the time it is made into a movie because she is PERFECT to play the part of Pheledra.
A quick annecdote –> I had already named Pheledra’s star-ship FIREFLY long before the excellent TV series by that name emerged.
I do understand how certain mental archetypes tend to float around in subspace and people intuitionally receive the same ideas without knowing anything at all about each other.
That is called “telepathy.” A phenomena now proven.
For those who possibly have not yet realized it, here is a quote from Albert Einstein (who my third grade teacher said was the “smartest” guy in the world) :O)
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Righto! So is humor, I might add.
Humor can heal what ails you.
“Knowledge” is just book learning and theory … until … it is experienced into wisdom. “Imagination” is creative intuition manifested and can far transcend time and space. :O)
Oh, and in case there be any less than upright folk out there that might be starting to feel desperate, because of the economy, and about to have a moral lapse, be it known that this work IS copywrited (copyrighted too) and registered.
Writers Guild of America — West
Downstep
Confirmation # 1059447
Registered 04/21/05 @ 5:50 PT
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