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            <h2>The Slide Part 2 | Chapter 10: The Return — October 26, 2031 AA</h2>
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            <h2>The Slide: Chapter 16 | Paris and More Secrets, the past — (continued)</h2>
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            <h2>The Slide: Chapter 18 | Unstuck, in the Recent Past — (continued)</h2>
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The Slide: Contents — parts 1 & 2

And An Introduction

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Introduction

This is my first story where I had not given a thought to an ending.

Rather the characters are the main focus, particularly the naivete, the drive, and the magic of Farha. She is an audacious young woman/boy/androgynous person with an iron will who faces adversity with a thirst to know, no matter the consequences. At this time in her life she identifies as a female. She is driven and foolhardy. I call her a natural leader, without a desire to lead anyone, in particular, she seeks — no hungers, and thirsts for truth. She goes wherever her instincts/intuition directs. I feel happy to know her and uncover her story for the page.

Tem, her uncle, and surrogate father is both a supporter and a hindrance. There is Alexis her first love, Sophie*, her second love, Nikos the Greek, his daughter Sophia and wife Maria, Ra the mystic, seer and healer, and many more characters… I would be remiss if I did not consider the Slide as a character — an anomaly in a desert that divides the eastern hemisphere from the western replete in enigmas, paradoxes, chaos, and danger.

*Sophie is alternatively spelled Sofie (L’Mallard) not to be confused with Sophia, daughter of Nikos the Greek. [corrections and other story kinks will be corrected in future print versions and perhaps a screenplay.]

Without further ado — let us begin.

The Slide: Part One

The Slide: Part Two

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