Welcome everyone! This will be a lot of fun. I'm starting off with kicking the story idea that came together last night. Future blogs will feature pastiche fiction from commercially licensed characters you love and original characters, most specifically as seen in my upcoming novel TRANS RUPTURE. You can find further reflections and entirely original fiction on my sister column, be chill, cease ill. Our hero is grabbed as a teenager and transported to an immortal realm where all technology uses power from the sun; this dimension exists parallel to our own save for a special nexus, yet they share the same star as we. There he acquires a mentor, a rough-hewn, short-tempered and secretly, very frightened teacher, who reveals to him everything has been thrust upon him quite suddenly, and he now must grab our hero before his chosen time and hastily prepare him to be the last line of defense. Every guardian of the realm has been converted to living flame, unmoving torch effigies, ...