Go Inside: Time Travel Trilogy

 

Here I give you a very special insider’s tour of my time travel trilogy. I hope that this will help you as a reader to have a much richer experience.  –Madeira Desouza

The Threat

I tell stories and create illustrations about masculine men involved with one another to provoke the viewer.

I have seen all my life how straight people do not like to see masculine men showing affection towards one another. Straight people will accept drag shows and comedies about effeminate gay men. And why not? Those are non-threatening. But, if masculine men are depicted in a story or images showing sexual interest in one another, oh boy, that suddenly becomes very threatening to straight people!

Some gay men I have encountered also find it uncomfortable to witness masculine men showing sexual interest in one another. Gays relegate such masculine men to the pejorative category of being “too butch.” For all of these reasons, I choose to provoke the viewer in my stories and illustrations.

The Moon

Yes, I do believe that some day in the future time travel will be possible. I’m not so sure that time travel will, as I have depicted it in my trilogy, require a lunar base. But, I chose to set several episodes of my time travel trilogy on the Moon under the crater Clavius because I believe science fiction should take interesting risks in telling stories. I chose that particular crater as a way of honoring Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. In the late 1960s, they situated their fictional lunar base at Clavius for 2001: a space odyssey.

The Repairmen

At its most simple level, my trilogy is about repairmen. My fictional repairmen have a fairly unusual job, however, compared to repairmen who fix washing machines or computers. My trilogy is about repairmen who use a time machine to travel on missions back to the past to fix timelines.

In my trilogy, the main reason for the existence of time travel is not to take the reader on a showcase of dazzling technology that produces grand and sweeping high concept adventures. No, not at all.

My time travelers are repairmen whose missions are to change people and events in the past to keep timelines from becoming worn down and generating chaos for humanity. What matters most is the human adventures that they experience as men–not that they are on secret time travel missions from the 23rd Century.

The Brain

I gave my time travel trilogy narrator the capability to remember multiple events and outcomes even after he goes back in time and changes the past. I knew that this would be controversial since the human brain is locked within the one timeline, so to speak, that we each inhabit.

As far as I know, the human brain can only process memories from within that one timeline. But, having a character with brain damage that somehow enables him to preserve and recall memories from multiple timelines that he visits was a very compelling storytelling choice for me. Hopefully, the readers will find that equally compelling.

The Desert

In my time travel trilogy, I set many of the episodes in the desert on Earth in a place that I call Bullhead, Arizona.

The inspiration for this comes from a genuine location. I actually lived and worked in Bullhead City, Arizona. (city website | Wikipedia page)

I learned quite a lot about myself and other people because I lived and worked in such an unforgiving desert. The reputation that this region has for being very hot is no exaggeration. I personally experienced summertime temperatures that exceeded 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Navajo

One of my main characters is a young Navajo male named Vincent Wauneka. I created this character out of the great respect I have for the Navajo people and their culture. Unlike the often stereotypical way that Native Americans are depicted in fictional storytelling, in my time travel trilogy the Navajo character will never remind you of the cardboard Indian characters you’ve seen in a lot of Hollywood movies.

Within the Navajo Nation is the famous Monument Valley, the site where many iconic Hollywood cowboy movies were filmed, including works by Clint Eastwood and John Ford. I incorporated this special place into my time travel trilogy because of the attraction that I have felt to this land. In real life, Monument Valley is way off the beaten path–no interstate freeways or major airports are nearby. So, many Americans never venture to this remote area. But, I have consistently found that being there in person in Monument Valley always is an experience of great spiritual and emotional impact.

The Ex-Wife

Gay men who were never married to a woman won’t understand. But, for the rest of you: I created the character named Katherine Snowe as the ex-wife of the time travel trilogy narrator, Ted Avila. She is one of only two female characters in my time travel trilogy, which otherwise is all male.

The behaviors and the speech of this female character come across as extreme and provocative. When I was younger, I was married for several years to a woman who behaved and spoke in such extreme and provocative ways.

All of the narrative elements pertaining to the character of the ex-wife have been drawn from events that I saw with my own eyes and speech that I heard with my own ears. I am not a gay man who hates females. However, I have a very strong belief that no gay man should ever marry a straight female no matter what. That was one of the biggest mistakes that I made in my life, but I am proud that I wised up and corrected my mistake.

The Downloads

All three parts of this sexy trilogy are available 100% FREE from Smashwords. You should download and read these in this order: