TORUS LINK: A TWO-SIDED TALE OF LINKING WORLDS
About the Story
Enter four art students in our world all congregating in a university in Scotland to achieve four very distinct goals– from singing their hearts out, to designing their own brand, to finding the mysterious person who shows up in their dreams and through uncanny portals, AHEM, “advancing in their fields”…
…and four people with elemental powers in a fantastical world, each trying to escape the confines of their society, with inexplicable ties that bring them in and out of our world.
If they can reach one another, they just may uncover the secret to achieving all of their dreams, yet something mysterious keeps them apart…
How to Read Torus Link: 3 Ways
Alone, each side of Torus Link tells its own independent story. When read together, everyone’s perspectives begin to tell a composite picture— and show just how linked the two sides are.
- Start with one side and read all the way through, then read the other side.
Click here to begin with Side A.
Click here to begin with Side B. - Read each side, alternating page by page. As both sides always update concurrently, you can read each alternate page using the links directly under the comic pages.
- Read in Print.
Each way of reading gives its own unique experience.
***NOTE: Torus Link contains some mature content and is not intended for young children. While I recommend TL for those a minimum of age 12 and up, parental discretion is always advised.***
Update Schedule
Torus Link currently updates with 4 comic pages on the first of each month– however, this may vary depending on what additional things there may be to link to as the story unfolds. To stay fully notified on all things TL, subscribe to my free monthly newsletter here.
ORIGIN OF TORUS LINK: A semi-autobiographical story.
When I was 12, I started a story about the elements of fire, water, earth, and air incarnated as people in our world, along with four others with amazing powers all their own in another world… and kept this entirely to myself for years. All throughout that time, I did not know how to resolve my characters’ relationship issues, where between this and my own struggles with self-worth, social anxiety, and sharing anything of myself, I eventually lost confidence that I could complete this story at all. Then, right on my 18th birthday, I got an uncanny call that came from deep within me, and soon after, a call to make a huge leap of faith.
In the end, I followed my heart and took that leap– all the way from the U.S. to a graduate school in Scotland– leading me to meet the very people I drew all the way back when I was 12.
Ever since this entire experience, I began to see how connected we are in real life, in ways far deeper than we think. In 2015, I launched Torus Link online: a culmination of what my year in Scotland gave me to pull this story together. And ever since then, Torus Link has grown, spanning additional branches of real life links, collaborations, and more. As the story continues through fiction and reality combined, more will be unveiled to show just how we connected we really are… and how we can use this connection to end societal imbalance overall.