concept album

"timmy and the never-ending slide"

(a prequel to all the timothy tierra saga?)

young boy timmy gets on a slide in the playground, and starts sliding, and in a flash of light he is transported to a different plane of existence, where the slide continues on for infinity, and he's stuck sliding down this slide for months and years until he painstakingly reinvents newton's laws in his head, in order to determine (without the aid of a pen or paper or a calculator) to coefficient for the force of fiction for the never-ending slide, and at the moment he arrives at the answer in his head- he is transported back to the middle of the slide... which is now dirty and rusted and surrounded by faded yellow "caution" tape and piles dried-out dead flowers and burned out candles with his own picture taped to the front. he sees the town is in disrepair and half deserted, as he runs home. his house is boarded up but the front door is busted open and swings in the breeze. he calls out for his family while running through the empty house. he gets to his room and open the door, to find his room exactly as he left it, but faded, dry and dim. he is short of breath from the stagnant, dead air that was sealed inside, but makes his way over to the mirror at his dresser, and wipes away the dust from the surface, revealing his image- a young man, faint stubble, forehead lines, and a scar below his eye...