Danger this is the first chapter and still needs editing. This is a rough draft
We all die and are born again. So we are taught. So we hope. These are the life and times of Toby Brown, who died a thousand times in a lifetime and keep coming back for more. That seems to be what we all seem to do. A little death here, a bigger death there.
TB as his few friends call him, has never be one to follow the pack. He had carved his own road through the forest. He has always tried to make his own mark. Unfortunately, nothing ever lasts very long.
As Toby awoke for another day of this life, he realized for the first time that he is alone. Sure, he has friends, but are they really there, in his mind. Alone he sits on the floor, in the park where he has awaken to song of birds from everywhere. They have come to wake him up it seems. They have awoken him in my was. Toby first ponders how he got there, he doesn’t remember. Last he recalls he was in friends house having a good time with friends, next he awakes in the middle of no where.
Wow, what a realization. My parents are dead, everyone I thought cared about me is dead.
So what the hell do I want to do. I no longer want my previous life, nor do I care for the life I used to dream about. Money, women, fast cars, career, power ; all meaningless. For I now knew I was mortal. That my life was finite, that everything I did was going to be the last time this day.
I had cheated my way through life, cheated life and in many ways cheated myself.
So I was going to be the writer, producer and actor in my new life. I had to write the script and make it happen, then whatever happen I had to make the role look good. This was his last chance.
Just a mere 24 hours ago things were normal, he had a normal life. He was married with two kids, a barely successful business man that everyone respected for his honesty and work ethic. A mere twenty four ago, he was like thousands, millions of other people on their way to work.
Something happen yesterday at work, a long time customer asked Toby for a job. He said he lost his retirement monies in the stock market and all his bills are much higher and that he need to go back to work. So much for retirement, Toby said. He also told Toby that his wife had cancer and he need insurance because Government heathcare only paid for certain parts of treatment. So here we had another person that depended on someone else that is now left to fend for himself. It would have been much better for him to have enjoyed himself in his life than to have saved himself for a time that would never come,
Toby drove home like he did many nights before to his split-level home in the town, to his wife and dog. Toby kept remembering the phrase, “The time is now”, which was the motto of his company. He sat down in front of the big screen like he did every night. Suddenly his wife walked in to the room and out of now where ask Toby this question. Do you love me? Toby thought about it for a few seconds that seemed like minutes, then said “NO”.
In his mind he was saying; I don’t love my wife, my kids, my house, my life or anything about it. I also don’t want to live the next 20 years in the same loop. So after a few minutes of crying and screaming, there was quiet. Everyone including Toby realized that this was the truth.
What Toby didn’t realize the cascade of events about to befall him. He was walking away from everyone and everything he had done for the last twenty years. He was really starting from scratch. His wife texted him the message get out now. So he pickup his cloth and move out in his truck. He didn’t realized he had nowhere to go. No one to offer him shelter. It was a motel or the Walmart parking lot. Toby choose the later, he basically had very little money left and needed to eat too. He also needed gas to get to work tomorrow.