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CHAPTER 1

November 26, 1979

JIM GRIMSON HAD never planned to eat his father's balls.

He had not expected to make love to twenty of his sisters.
He could not foresee that, while riding a white Steed, he
would save his mother from a prison and a killer.

How could he, seventeen years old in October of 1979,
know that he had created this seemingly ten-billion-year-old
universe?

Though his father often called him a dumbbell and his
teachers obviously thought he was one, Jim did read a lot.
He knew the current theory of how the universe was
supposed to have started. In the very beginning, before
Time had started, the Primal Ball was the only thing
existing. Outside of it was nothing, not even Space. All of
the future universe, constellations, galaxies, everything,
was packed into a sphere the size of his eyeball. This had

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gotten so hot and dense that it had blown up, out, and away.
That explosion was called the Big Bang. Eons afterwards,
the expanding matter had become stars, planets, and life on
Earth.

That theory was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

Matter was not the only thing that could be put under
tremendous heat and pressure. The soul could be squeezed
too much. Then: BOOM!

God Almighty and then some! Less than a month ago, he
had reluctantly entered the mental ward of Wellington
Hospital, Belmont City, Tarhee County, Ohio State. Then
he had become, among other things, the Lord of several
universes, a wanderer in many, and a slave in one.

At this moment, he was back on his native Earth, same
hospital. He was freezing with misery, burning with fury,
and pacing back and forth in a locked room.

Jim's psychiatrist. Doctor Porsena, had said that Jim's
trips into other worlds were mental, though that did not