There is a story I have carried like a secret for five years. In a World of Gods and Monsters. Episode Two sits before me now, cursor blinking against the accumulated weight of half a decade's worth of dreams, each revision a small betrayal of the perfection that lives, untouchable, in my mind.

Five years. Five years of inhabiting this fictional universe so completely that reality became the intrusion. I know the way morning light filters through the windows of buildings that don't exist. I can t...