My name is Cassius, and my adventure started with the delivery of a mysterious guidebook to my deceased parents' house. Then my office received a personal request email for me to travel to a place called Leserson Island. Of course, I couldn't drop everything and go. I had responsibilities and a dog to look after.Unless I got my sister to do it!Once I had everything covered back home, I started my journey to this Leserson Island. But to get there, I had to go to the Consulate Archipelago. Even though I had an invitation, the Consulate had full authority over who could travel there. Only by fulfilling the requirements of the Consulate and meeting with the Chief Bureaucrat could I continue to Leserson Island. Yet these challenges were part of a culture and language which were unfamiliar to me.Also, the guidebook I had received had almost no information about the Consulate or the tasks I had to complete!Even more perplexing was why they invited me. I didn't know these people, but they seem to know about my family and me. The longer I stayed at the Archipelago, the more of this connection I discovered. That is, presuming I can make it through these challenges and not be sent home! A.J. Slipchenko is a Canadian who wrote Herman's dream and the Pre-Herman series (The Rise of Nega-State, the Secrets of Brother Joy and the Greater Theft) which were inspired by undergrad psychology and sociology classes taken at university.After university, he taught English internationally where he developed an interest in travel, photography and different cultures.When not creating new psychological vistas, he drinks coffee.
