LC_Satellite 001-Boxee (the alternate LC story)-Book 11 (Preface and post001)

One of those horrible 'pre's' so as to help you understand certain references in the story:

I have been writing a series of books (if published in softcover, would probably be about 28 books of 1,000 pages each...)

As you know, if you are an adult, there are at least two sides to every story. From my side, I decided to write about a mutant baby girl who is born in another reality, and her gift is empathy. She can feel the emotions of everyone (their emoting) and learns to attach emotions of hers and send the parcel back, affecting the person she wants to help.

When she is 3 years old, her father realises she is a mutant and concentrates on teaching her that she must hide her abilities or else everyone will think of her as a freak. When she is seven years old, the father decides to separate from her mother, and the child, when she learns of it, cries out, sending her urgent (emotive) plea for him to return - causing an accident and he is killed.

Her name is Cherine.

A long time later, she meets Robert, an artist living in Athens, Greece, who is depressed and withdrawn because his love has left him for another man. As he comes to know Cherine, using her gift, she begins to build on his slight liking of her, until he is hopelessly in love with her....with the result that she too falls in love with him as his mind opens to hers.

Her constant interference with his mind awakens abilities in Robert and he becomes the Protector.

Later...

Cherine gets Dominique, his first love, to fall in love with Robert, because she fears her love for him will destroy him. He convinces her he cannot live without her by literally dying. When Robert died, Cherine followed his soul and found him in a place he names 'the void'.

Slowly the family grows, not through births of children so much as by Robert finding girls who have suffered (one of my favourites is a girl called Aganthi, an Albanian girl working the streets as a flower girl and prostitute.)

Later, Robert has a daughter born to him named Samantha. Her mother is a friend of Dominique. Samantha was, in her previous life, an alien child of a few hundred thousand years old and was a sentient plant, living on a planet where the sun was dying, destroying her leaves so that she is also about to die. She grows to love Robert so much that she returns over two hundred years in time to be born as his daughter.

An alien species arrive in the void. The aliens have never had material bodies and are on a mission to save all the souls they think are trapped in physical bodies...and they have been doing this for millions of years, killing off thousands of species.

Robert appoints Samantha (still a baby) as their leader, while he is forced to remain in the void to fight the Sparklers. Cherine visits him while the war is on and he takes time off to dance with her soul and the Sparklers stop attacking. Robert dares to fly amongst them and they become the best friends of the Cherinians.

Robert is writing a diary, recording their lives, and they are mystified when the writing keeps changing. As I said, every story has two sides. From my side, I am writing my story by copying their diary (which I guess makes me a plagiarist) and from their side, if Robert says, Cherine said, 'Boo', and I write, Samantha said, 'Boo', their diary changes and...now, in fact, it is Samantha who said 'Boo' but, they also recall that it was Cherine who said 'Boo'.

I realise what is happening and introduce myself...

Certain rules are established: the normal font of the story affects their lives through my assumptions. If I use a different font for chatting, whatever I say or assume does not affect their reality.

Over the years, Samantha takes over the diary and I grow to love her very much, though we fight often. She does not cut me any slack and demands I am always as considerate of them as with girls of my reality. She gets very angry with me if I try to write an adventure for them into my story without first asking, for she points out that when I do so, I make them feel like puppets. She also tells me that as an author, I severely lack any creative talent and I would do better to mostly confine myself to (badly) copying their diary.

Something happens and Samantha is feeling very low, so I start telling her a story (in chat font so that it does not become true). That story is 'The Boxee', about an imaginary Cherine and Robert. Without telling me, she releases the story to the public and because I am their 'Author', everyone reads it (cringe). Soon Sam is getting millions of requests, even from her Cherine, that I make the story become true by changing the font...and save a child when he dies.

-- I hope you enjoy reading my story, which of course is dedicated to Samantha. --

PS: This, and other stories taken out of the main books, are named 'Satellite stories'. So the full title is

'LC_Satellite 001-Boxee (the alternate LC story)-Book 11'.

Any corrections, comments, criticisms or suggestions would be welcomed as I am forced to be my own proof reader.

Note: I have noticed everyone, on Steemit, splits their stories into small pieces, equivalent to about three to four pages. I hope my splitting Boxee into larger pieces is not too much of a strain on anyone who chooses to read the story.

(To keep my style and formatting, I am posting the text as photographs). This means you should be able to copy them and read them when off-line. If you want to post them somewhere else, please ask me first.

I retain the right to be identified as author of this work.

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