Charles C. Kayson
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Charles C. Kayson
by Charles C. Kayson
Book 8 - In the shadow of forgotten moons and ancient wars, a fugitive drifts between past and future.
Twitch, a man with secrets coded into his blood, hijacks a ship long thought dead and sets off a chain reaction that will ripple across worlds. As silent powers awaken and alliances fracture, the line between weapon and witness begins to blur. Pursued across star systems and hunted for truths buried in myth, he must navigate a galaxy that remembers everything... except mercy.
What begins as an escape becomes something far stranger: a collision course with destiny, legacy, and a planet that has no idea what’s about to arrive.
The Bananaverse is a series of short stories born from the strange mental ingenuity of the COVID-19 era. What began as isolation-fueled creativity evolved into a connected universe of ideas. The Papa books emerged first, written in response to a challenge to create a children’s story, playful on the surface yet quietly thoughtful beneath it. The Slipstream books followed as a new series focused on humanity’s exploration of Earth’s cosmic neighborhood and far beyond the Oort Cloud, marked by the discovery that human technology has reached two percent of the speed of light.
Charles C. Kayson is a new writer best known for creating the Bananaverse, a growing series of interconnected short stories. Raised in Peoria, Arizona, he grew up immersed in superhero mythology, equally captivated by heroes and the villains who challenged them. That balance between idealism and darkness would later shape the moral tension that runs through his fictional worlds. Alongside comics and graphic storytelling, Kayson developed an early fascination with space, the solar system, and the vast mechanics of the universe. Planets, cosmic distances, and the idea of humanity pushing beyond its limits became recurring sources of inspiration. His work often blends grounded human emotion with speculative ideas, treating imagination as both playground and laboratory. Through the Bananaverse, Kayson explores how extraordinary circumstances reveal character, whether those circumstances involve masked figures, fractured cities, or the quiet pull of the cosmos itself.
