A Novella - read it in one evening
All Oscar wants is to get home to his own universe, where everything is the way he’s used to.
He knew he wasn’t supposed to go down those stairs in the cellar, but the cat led him down. Now, he’s in what seems like the same house, but things are subtly different. And there’s a copy of himself. He tries to go back the way he came, but it’s different again. His dad is a crook, and his mother says things he never heard her say before.
He meets yet another copy of himself who knows what’s going on, and becomes his best friend. He explains it to him: he’s lost in the multiverse. His only option is to live like a rat in the cellar, exploring all the worlds until he finds a copy of his family that most suits him. If his bedroom isn’t vacant, he could live like a twin to whoever is there - maybe. But his friend seems to know more than he’s saying.
He makes a start on his search, and then comes back to find that the world where his best friend lived, has been nuked. Other worlds have political unrest and riots. In some, his paedophile uncle has broken out of prison, and a few copies of him are now roaming the multiverse. In all the worlds, the economy is bad, and the police only protect those who can afford to pay them.
Oscar’s own world wasn’t a paradise either, but at least it was home. He wants, very badly, to find his own world, and his own parents; but the cat has different ideas. There’s only one of the cat.
If you like time travel stories with a surreal twist, you’ll love this novella, which you can read in one evening. Download the first in the series now, and begin your journey.
The Sequel...
Louis' Journey Home:
The sequel picks up the story following the climax of Rats in the Cellar; this time, following Louis, the bad boy, in whom the cat takes a special interest. After making sure Louis makes up for some of his nastier pranks, he sends him on a real adventure where he learns some fundamental facts of the multiverse. He teams up with yet another instance of Oscar, this one living in the street, a victim of his Paedophile uncle, who takes the name Blake. They go on a rescue mission to find the owner of their house from yet another universe, who has become lost in the network of worlds. In doing so, Louis and Blake find a home where they're accepted as twin sons of the man they rescued.
Peter and the Lost Boys:
In Part 2, they're off again with their new dad, who has taken the name Peter to distinguish him from the other instances of himself. This time they deal with the various instances of "Uncle Milton", Oscar's paedophile uncle. There are more twists and turns as they meet another creature of the same order as the cat.
Part 3 of the Trilogy:
The diary of a nuclear physicist stuck in the 18th century tells part of the story. Some unscrupulous time travellers have pre-empted the abolition movement, turning their universe into a dark world where human rights isn't even a concept. One instance of Oscar Wild Daugherty stumbles into that world, which leads to the whole group of them going in to make a difference
Actually, it's not a trilogy, but a quadriligy...
You thought that the series had come to a close. It has - almost…
The time has come to shut down the parallel worlds portal in the big house on Oldhouse Road. Dr. James McSporran has arrived from the distant past to perform the task. He asks Oscar Wild Daugherty, also known as Justin, to help him.
But the task is far from straightforward. On shutting it down, they are flung into the bleak world that had resulted from the evil acts of McSporran’s two unscrupulous pupils. There the house lies in ruins. Switching the portal back on only resets the device, which will now only work on the original world and any that would split off from that. And split off, it does, resulting in two Oscars, and two Dr. McSporrans. At least Oscar will never be alone again, but how do they get home?
The McSporrans find that two heads are better than one, but one of them must stay behind. The other takes the two boys. Their route takes them through Victorian England, where the unthinkable happens. The two Oscars are taken away to London into child labour, while McSporran is put in prison for trespassing in his own house
How does one get back home when locked in a silk mill in Victorian London?