Don't Burn Too Bright

A hopepunk space fantasy. This is what happens after the end.

Status: Drafting

In a galaxy still smoldering from wars past, Xander walks a tightrope between person and machine. Once a living weapon, he is now a fallen clockwork angel stitched back together from the ashes of his demise.

Everyone thinks he died three years ago — Gwen, his fierce partner-in-arms, and Isadora, whose introspective wisdom anchored his personhood.

Haunted by worlds they failed to save and life without him, Gwen and Isadora seek oblivion through the flickering Great Gates. Xander catches them just as they fall through, catapulting all three into an unknown future.

In a verdant city thrumming with energy, they face the chasm three years carved between them. Xander's unaffected exterior conceals a tortured soul, Isadora battles her demons, and Gwen struggles to reconcile the warrior she was with the person she longs to become.

Told through Isadora's poignant journal entries, this imaginative tale is for anyone caught between who they were and who they might become.

This is not a story about the end. This is what happens after.

• Genre: Hopepunk
• Status: Drafting

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