The Winds of All Worlds

＂I’ll tell you the story ’bout the the joker and the thief.＂

Alternate realities. Interdimensional travel. Strange beings living between the various worlds.
When Philip Neri invented the Transport System to make instantaneous travel to all points of the globe possible, he did not envision any of these things. Neither did he expect that his lifelong friend, Nick Myra, would steal his plans and sell them to the government.
Six years later, at his 40th birthday party, Philip drunkenly decides to unveil his updated version of the TranSys, the TransDev, to his unsuspecting guests. In an instant, eleven people are whisked away to worlds that should not exist without any apparent way home. And the common factor of all of these strange, parallel earths is a giant Tower, dominating the horizon.
What is the Tower? What are the animal headed monsters that rule these other worlds? And will any of Philip’s friends survive long enough to find out?
second printing, July 2017

Mikal Johnson was born at the Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California in 1968, the middle child of Mark and Charla Johnson. He grew up in Petaluma, California until, at the age of nine, his family moved to Federal Way, Washington. He has been writing short stories and poetry since high school. He had several poems published in anthologies in the early 1990s and his first novel, War of Grace, was self-published in 1997. A short story, Future Ghosts, was the introductory feature in the premiere issue of the magazine Revelations in 2003 and he worked as a historical consultant on the web-series Millennium: Apocalypse, in 2006. Also in 2003 He released a collection titled Not the Worst Poetry followed in 2005 by Not the Worst Short Stories.
Mikal lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho with his wife, Dawn, and his two children. Mikal enjoys time with family & friends and spending time with their Cocker Spaniel, Cooper.