Long ago, the world was a place of utter chaos, of which darkness ruled over everyone, and everthing. Darkness was lord and leader, and the price of resisting was death by torture.

Ben Jensen, Security Guard at Smith, Bakeman, & Lloyd, was in a work of fiction, and not just that… it was a best seller.

The words leaped out of the page at him, attacking him as they did so. He fell backwards frantically fending them off.

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It wasn't just the much repeated walk home along that same old road that made me pack up my troubles in my old rucksack and move away. It had been brewing on an unwatched hob for a while.