Hector Blake

by Allen W. McLean, April Salisbury-White (Editor)

Contractions of light, // the expansion of the fog; // bringer of darkness
... Fading Fire - HaikuPrajna

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[Also contains "Ado the Owl - The Wisps Book II" by Allen W. McLean]

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Hector Blake longed for the excitement of his old life. He had awoken in a dark room, the walls of which being impervious to his intense pyrokinesis, to fend off an endless one-on-one assault of enemies. He was, a day prior, living in peaceful retirement back home on Titan, once being a renowned superhero across the Sol system.

Now, adversaries flood the room he had found himself in, and his tools and abilities are all that he can use to stave off exhaustion while fighting personifications of his slothful thoughts. Hector’s applied displays incinerated such hindrances while reinvigorating him--but can he keep the fire alive, let alone bright enough to face a stronger burning willpower?

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This short story was published as part of "SM-SARA, Poetry and Other Stories", the second book in the HaikuPrajna collection.

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36 pages, Paperback

Published August 25, 2023

About the author

Allen W. McLean is a self-published author of metaphysical speculative fiction, of scifaiku sci-fi haiku poetry and of book reviews. He was born and raised in the suburbs of Ontario, Canada.

April Salisbury-White produces psychedelic music as "Electric Armchair"; at her behest, Allen began sharing poetry on his book reviews and works in progress as “HaikuPrajna” with Alchemic Wisdom & Bite-sized Insights, which have been collected both online and in print; together they form The A² Production Team.

Allen W. McLean's books focus on transcending hindrances with ideas from neoplatonism, metaphysics and theology alongside practices like mindfulness meditation.

He outlined his first novel in 2017 when he was nineteen, which he published in 2021 after first releasing much earlier short stories in 2019; today, he and April can be found drinking coffee around the GTA when they are otherwise unoccupied by their writing and by napping with their cat.

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