Welcome to the multiverse's dumping ground.
Thirty-two: The most fundamental constant currently known to man, it numbers the layers of reality itself. Thirty-two parallel worlds, once identical, lie stacked on top of each other, running slightly crooked. And those gaps leave room to fall between layers. It can happen to anyone, at anytime. And once you've fallen, your fate is sealed: there is no way back to a higher dimension. In most layers, a tiny fraction of people fall every year, and a tiny fraction of people arrive every year. Layer 32 doesn't have that luxury. Plenty of stuff falls. But it's the final layer. Rock bottom. So nothing leaves.
You see what I mean about the universe's dumping ground?
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Meet Dameon, ex-FBI agent, now one of the fallen. But not just any fallen. He is one of the Brothers. They are anomalies: Fifteen versions of himself and his brother, Samuel, from fifteen of the thirty-two realities, have fallen down to Layer 32 over the years. Dameon is number sixteen. And once he has fallen, he finds that a duplicate of his brother rules Eos, the only sizable country in this post-apocalyptic world, with all the other Brothers forming his inner circle. An inner circle that Dameon is immediately asked to join.
Burdened by painful memories of his FBI days and distrustful of the Brothers' absolute power, Dameon refuses, instead joining the retrieval teams who search out and rescue other fallen. He chafes against the government's tight control over its citizens, but does not take action.
Until his beloved brother, Sam, left behind in his own dimension, falls through, and is kidnapped by a rebel group led by rogue duplicates of the Brothers before Dameon can reach him. Dameon will stop at nothing to see his brother again, but as he gives chase, his torn loyalties will deepen until he is face with an unresolvable question: his country, his brother, or the chance for change?
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That just about starts to cover it, but I have so many ideas for this novel and it's really complicated and some of them are seriously underdeveloped. Plus, this is actually sort of going to be a trilogy, with the second and third books focusing on figuring out *why* people fall through the layers of reality and how all this started in the first place.
I started writing this story last NaNo. I completed that NaNo, but it was such a mess. I trashed it all and started over, but ran out of steam and got really, really busy about a third of the way through. Reading it back over, it's not nearly as bad as I thought it was, but either way I just need to push through and finish the first draft so I can get an idea of where I'm going.
I'm planning on writing a post daily here. I think I'll start with one about each major character, then figure out a bit more about the world and such. One of the main things that just isn't clicking for me at the moment is an aspect of Dameon's motivation, so that's going to get a lot of attention.
I haven't decided on a goal for LMS yet, but it might just be something like 2000 words a week. I'll declare it at some point before the thing starts, of course.
And I think that's it! Feel free to comment and let me know what you think.
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