My name is Dexter Jared Peterson. I am 26 years old and I live in New York City. In the last seven years, I have lived as 11,577 different people.
This is how Dexter begins every entry he writes in his journal. Whether he wakes up as a World War II soldier or a cinema-worshiping priest in a post-apocalyptic religious order, all Dexter can do is try to stay alive as his world changes.
And then there's the mysterious girl that seems to follow him from life to life. How could she possibly be the same girl in Dexter's past, present, and future?
It's a classic story of
boy meets girl,
boy meets girl again as someone else,
boy keeps meeting girl and can't seem to stop,
boy must decide if girl is just another anomaly or is worth giving his life to save her from certain death.
This novella accompanies the piano rock album available at www.matthewebel.com
About the Author: Matthew Ebel is a piano rocker, a voice actor, an author, and a goofball. His science-fiction-themed performances and albums put him deep into Geek territory, yet his writing style remains approachable by all walks of life (human or otherwise). As a performer, he's been named Guest of Honor at conventions such as CONvergence and Further Confusion, as well as having played venues from coffee houses to countless geek conventions to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Prodo-1 On stage and on his adventure albums he takes the persona of Captain Ebel, a well-meaning but dubiously competent starship captain who is kept alive mainly thanks to his robots, Prodo-1 and Prodo-2. As the live concert progresses, Ebel and his crew typically find themselves threatened by intergalactic carnivore overlords, malfunctioning robotic killing machines, or 18th century steampunk arch-villains from a parallel Earth. Somehow, the crew manages to not only survive but involve the audience in 90 minutes of fun and piano rock.
Ebel is also a published science-fiction author and voice actor, having given voice to zombie hunters in the PC game Contagion and secret-agent space-werewolves in Richard L. Sanders' Phoenix Conspiracy book series. His first novella, The Lives of Dexter Peterson, was published in 2014 by Rabbit Valley Comics.
