Imaginary: by Dr. Sooth

by William Quirk

Tom and Cade spent most eleventh grade creating a boardgame. But just before they fed the data into Tom's Dad's 3D computer, Cade died in a school shooting with Tom standing right next to him. Ever since, all Tom wanted was for something worse to happen. And when a category 5 hurricane struck his town, Tom made sure he was in his wake.

Instead of killing him, the hurricane transported him into the medieval world of their game where he was enlisted to help the treacherously unseated Earl of the Leas to reclaim his patrimony by going on a quest to find the first Dreaming Willow. The only problem is that the Earl, Euros, is not only the same age, he's a classic bully with entitlement issues who, in Tom's world would be on academic suspension at least. And the uber nerd Tom not only has to help him evade the Zebra Men, saber tooth porpoises and a very young giant, he has to rescue a princess and devise a way to get across the Burning Lands. All while appeasing the earl's vanity. Oh, and falling in love with the beautiful Princess Ianna who may be the very first girl who ever liked him. Or not.

Does he make it to the Dreaming Willow? Does he make a new best friend?

Or is it all Imaginary?

194 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 8, 2023