Looking for a new columnist, Jared Shurin at Pornokitsch asked me to pitch an idea. The one we settled on was a fake fan fiction column. But how can fan fiction be fake, you ask? Also, can it be any good?

The story The Empire Cashes Back was also inspired by the stampede of authors to cash-in on a corporate tie-in franchise anthology of a certain name.

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