IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 2: Like Death Warmed Over

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 2 Prompt:
Sometimes we pick up a book or read an article at the exact moment it's so needed. Write a story in which one of your characters is going through a difficult time and picks up a book that changes his outlook. Have your character become so connected with the book that he feels like it was written for him. Who knows, maybe it was? — Poets&Writers

Use this plot in a short story: A man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father. — (From Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”)

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

A Note on the IntShoWriMo 2015 Theme

"There Are Other Worlds Than These"

I'd like to officially unveil the theme for this year's challenge.

The 2015 theme has a scifi-fantasy feel but be assured, there's no conspiracy going on here. It's not a plot to twist anyone's arm and force their pens on genre(s) totally out of their league.

The phrase “There Are Other Worlds Than These,” (which is a quote made by Stephen King in magnum opus, The Dark Tower) should turn our minds to one of the most basic axis on which fiction rotates and that is 'our Earth is only one of a million Earths existing in a parallel line.

As you set yourself up to pen 30 stories in the month of June, look at every one of those stories as a foray into parallel universes; into places different yet similar in queer ways, to ‘our’ own Earth. And while you're at it, do try to make the settings, characters and plot believable.

Because you really do believe, “There Are Other Worlds Than These.”

Keep your pens bleeding.

Akpan