Thank you Kelle for your "rich" above comment. It shows you have a vast experience with reading technical instructions and menus instead of literature that you actually must make sense of. I appreciate it that you read it despite the terrible effort you must have felt. It is to your credit. And you put so much effort into deconstructing it, wasting your time with comments. Your comment proves the only fact that what you read makes no sense to you. Remember that how you see it shows your own perception - or lack of. It doesn't mean that to other people it has no meaning whatsoever. There might be other readers who actually have a more than "obtuse" sense in finding the links between the flashes of time, or caring about what happens, or finding an answer at the end. It must have been tremendously difficult to you to see it. It is not a reality tv show. It is a subtle story about time travel. Your questions resemble a gymnasium pupil's confusion. And I must point out that Hoofs is an alternative plural to Hooves.
sincerely, Chrys Romeo

You've got to be kidding me. To say this story was "disjointed" would be generous. There's no character development; nothing in the story or the unnamed narrator makes the reader care about him, nor this "woman" character who keeps appearing. Nothing to make the reader care about what's happening or why these "times" or "realities" are jumping around like this. Is there a purpose to the hypnosis part? What about the armies? Is there a parallel that the reader should be seeing between the child "soldiers" and the adult ones? The ending should give the reader some answers, yet there aren't any.

Grammatical and punctuation errors are rife in this manuscript, as well. The plural of "hoof" is "hooves". The metaphors are obtuse at best but most often just don't make sense. It reads like a melatonin-induced dream that someone scribbled frantically upon waking, certain that it means something, when all along it was just the subconscious firing extra synapses.