I check the altimeter on my watch: 1200 meters. It’s going to take around 20 seconds to get to break-off so I wait, the adrenaline pumping hard in my veins. At 500 meters I hear the alarm from the watch, to hell with it, I say to myself, I’ll show you guys what I’m made of. Pretty sure they’ll check the deploy altitude for each of us. I have a surprise for you...

FanFiction lets you find creative freedom within the constraints of an established franchise. This is my first attempt at fanfic, and I totally enjoyed the process. It's an original short story based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe series. It has a follow up which will be posted soon.

There was something supernatural at work. Could it be that, standing among enemy forces, he had incurred the wrath of some foreign god or demon? For a moment, he thought about ordering the retreat...

They ruled Sardinia for a thousand years, building massive nuraghe across the island, before suddenly disappearing, leaving only their remains behind. What happened to the Nuragic civilization? Suspended between historical accuracy and imaginative interpretation, The Rose of Nur seeks to unravel the mystery through a tale of war and love, sacrifice and loss, set in late Nuragic Sardinia.

“You should've seen yourself”, the guard says. “You broke the glass and ate the snake, then attacked several guards. You almost killed one of ours with your bare hands. You were drenched in blood, and the twins were laughing the whole time. In the end, you collapsed to the ground. We thought you were dead”.

Follow up to The Day I became a Joe, this short story completes the arc of original character Robert La Marmora. Fanfic set in the G.I. Joe universe.