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Chapter One: I Fall Down

Asher Radezlav, a mentally ill artist, musician, and gutter-punk apostle introduces us to his mad world
of prophetic dreams and hallucinations. He and his urban cowboy brother, Danny, operate a series of bars,
eateries, and living establishments left to them by their deceased parents. With little to no responsibility or
financial boundaries to fetter him, Asher is free to immerse himself in a lifetime of self created folklore and
substance abuse; straining his relationship with his increasingly frustrated and concerned brother.

Chapter One: I Fall Down

Chapter Two: My Crippling Headaches

When Asher and Danny’s parents acquire a failing industrial complex, they consequently undue their
only local
competition: Twiggy Toys. Being overwhelmed with guilt, their father requests that Mr. Twig
become head of operations for his newly formed BA Toys, Inc., unknowingly introducing Asher and Danny
to their greatest childhood friend, Jerrod Twig. It is Jerrod who first opens Asher to ideations of social
discord, the punk-rock aesthetic, and marijuana, all of which irreparably form Asher in his adolescence.

Chapter Two: My Crippling Headaches

Chapter Three: The Eighth Plague

Welcome to The Eighth Plague: a succession of venues offering fine dinning, live entertainment, various
anesthetics, and debauchery for all manners of social deviants, slumming elitists, and teenage runaways.
Asher finds true love in one such runaway, Abigail Sutcher, a precocious self professed retro 80’s art-punk
who was guided to the complex by clairvoyant messages from above. As with all of Asher’s relationships, their
beginning proves tumultuous.

Chapter Three: The Eighth Plague

Chapter Four: Danny and I

Immediately following their parents' death, Danny and Asher accidentally burn down their childhood
home. Setting out on a journey to find meaning in life, fourteen-year-old Asher meets a premature, teenage
burnout named California Early.  California has set up shop in a defunct Public School laboratory where he
manufactures his own personal brand of LSD. When Asher and Cal meet up with Danny at the complex,
Danny informs Asher that he has been named his guardian, causing Asher and Cal to leave town on the rails.

Chapter Four: Danny and I

Chapter Five: Asher and Me

After knocking Asher out cold, Abigail pulls him into an alleyway where she lovingly narrates their supposed
future. When she wakes the next day, Asher is gone. Fueled by spite and rejection, Abigail does not shy away
from a conflict with an opportunistic derelict that ultimately overpowers and knocks her unconscious.  When
Abigail wakes many hours later in a pitch-black factory, she slowly orients to a vindicated Asher whose future
and intentions have suddenly become uncertain.

Chapter Five: Asher and Me

Chapter Six: BA Toys, Inc.

When Asher adds Abigail to his bank accounts she decides to move in and make a few unexpected changes
to the factory. Danny, however, is none too pleased with the notion and becomes suspect of Abigail's motives.
During one of his frequent benders, Asher blacks out and finds himself battling his appointed childhood
demon, a creature known as The Heap. When he next wakes, a frightened Abigail is holding him in their custom
made and furnished bedroom that she had built for them and their future children.

Chapter Six: BA Toys, Inc.

Chapter Seven: I Put My Left Arm in the Right Arm Hole

Being a new father to baby Joshua proves more demanding than Asher had thought. In a show of good faith
he has stripped himself of his character and adopted stark sobriety. His thrills are now found on billboards
and rooftops where he and California paste and spray their graffiti. Due to an ill conceived cold-turkey
detox from pills, Asher is again sent to the ER, having suffered a psychotic break. In an attempt to apologize
to Abigail, he asks for her hand in marriage.

Chapter Seven: I Put My Left Arm in the Right Arm Hole

Chapter Eight: All My Dreams Come True

During a night on the town, Asher sees what he believes to be the antichrist figure from his dreams, Congressmen
Louis Moodreaux, accepting an award on television. When he wakes the next day he finds that his dreams have
synced with the news and proclaims himself a conduit of God. Abigail becomes concerned for his sanity, but
more importantly for their new family. Asher pulls it together long enough to attend Joshua's first birthday, but
quickly slips away to compose a threatening letter to many heads of state and government officials.

Chapter Eight: All My Dreams Come True

Chapter Nine: Torrez, Big and Tall

In response to Asher's letter, Federal Agent Benjamin Torrez, is dispatched to the complex, but Asher is no
where to be found. Having seen Torrez's arrival in a dream, Asher ran off into the hills, leaving his fiancé, son,
brother, and all the Eighth Plague Players to worry. When Torrez pressures Danny for details, Abigail hears a few
stories that are less than good news. Even though Danny seems to have reached out to Torrez for help, the now
heart-broken Abigail doesn't trust him for a second.

Chapter Nine: Torrez, Big and Tall

Chapter Ten: Justice for All

In Asher's absence Torrez the hedonist is left to enjoy all of the complexes scandalous amenities and to Abigail's
horror he speedily solves the case of the missing derelict that attacked her. With the Bay Area street life growing soon cold,
Asher employs the dissident skills of a tattooed postal worker named Patty and is shipped via USPS to Danny's party entitled,
The Asher Radezlav Goes to Prison Extravaganza!

Chapter Ten: Justice for All

Chapter Eleven: The Kenites and The Zadok

Sentenced to The Arkansas Ozark Highlands Facility for the Criminally Insane, Asher is transported by van
with his court appointed physician, Dr. Eli Pesache. In a startling display of faith in Asher, Doc Pesache arranges
for a dramatic jail break, but the driver of the van regains control and Asher is delivered as promised to the
AOHFCI, a facility that practices sensory deprivation as punishment. While in the black Asher learns to control
his memories as a timeline and to his surprise, upon exiting solitary confinement, finds the facility to be
curiously healing and progressive.

Chapter Eleven: The Kenites and The Zadok

Chapter Twelve: The Coming Out of Zerubbabel

Seemingly left to die in solitary confinement, Asher escapes his confine to find that the facility has mysteriously
been vacated in a panic. Feeling utterly rejected by his family's lack of communication, combined with a plethora
of readily availably narcotics, Asher decides to stay at the facility and treat it as his playground. But, when he sees
a broadcast of Congressman Moodreaux taking oath of office as the US president, he feels compelled to strike out
through the Arkansas woods in search of society.

Chapter Twelve: The Coming Out of Zerubbabel

Chapter Thirteen: Aughblood

The Arkansas Ozarks prove far too inhospitable for a citified Asher, so he decides to turn back for the facility.
But, when he does he finds himself lost and growing weaker, ultimately collapsing on the forest floor. Suddenly
a dark figure that had been tracking Asher subdues him by force. Luckily for him it's Abigail's father, an Arkansas
native and aging greaser named Aughblood Sutcher. Together Aughblood and Asher navigate the Highlands en
route to the Sutcher family farm.

Chapter Thirteen: Aughblood

Chapter Fourteen: The Six Winged Butterfly

Being a tried and true addict, Asher greedily gobbles down what he thinks are hallucinogenic mushrooms,
but Aughblood knows better. With a belly full of Destroying Angels, Asher is again subdued and made the
subject of Aughblood's correction by way of a knock out blow to the chin. While unconscious, Asher
dreams a monumental prophecy.

Chapter Fourteen: The Six Winged Butterfly

Chapter Fifteen: An Army in My Living Room

By means of smoke inhalation, Asher wakes in Abigail's childhood bedroom which is engulfed in flames. Asher
saves precious little and meets a remorseless Aughblood who chauffeurs them back to Asher's California complex.
During the long drive, Aughblood drops a cryptic reference that keeps Asher guessing for days. Upon their arrival,
Asher learns that his family has made a few drastic changes, believing that he had died. Asher makes a ghostly
reappearance to the Eighth Plague Players and delivers his first sermon to a darker flock.

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Chapter Sixteen: The Witnesses Revealed

Asher ascends the ranks of the New Rebel Army and is dispatched to the various local sects to deliver his sermons
and act as a symbolic figurehead. Danny, who has been left behind to tend to the complex becomes jealous and sends
letters of discontent to his brother. Just when Asher ties up all of his loose ends, an enemy approaches through the
gathered crowd.

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Chapter Seventeen: ???

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