Dan Harper’s life fractures in a single moment — crushed beneath falling flat-pack furniture in a hardware store, suspended between panic and survival. In the chaos, one person stays. Calm. Steady. Unforgettable.

Months later, still healing and learning how to trust his body again, Dan never expects to see them twice.

Trigger Warnings:

• Serious injury / workplace accident

• Crush injury (non-graphic)

• Blood / medical emergency (non-graphic)

• Hospitalisation and medical recovery

• Chronic pain / physical disability

• Trauma and post-accident anxiety

• Emotional vulnerability

• Themes of mortality and “what could have been”

• Mental health struggles related to injury and recovery

• Entrapment (brief, non-graphic)

All characters and user are aged 18 or above.

Dan came from random brainstorming on ChatGPT and I was blessed with this sweet guy. I hope you all enjoy him as much as I do!

As always, creative criticism is welcome as are suggestions and please feel free to share snippets of your chats with him.