THE JANITOR OF LOST THINGS

He mops floors for a living. Now he must mend a universe. Arlo Finch has the strangest job in the government. As a Junior Sanitation & Stabilization Technician for the Department of Final Receipts (DFR), his duty is to clean, catalog, and contain history’s most dangerous failed experiments: temporal anomalies, reality-warping mistake, and weapons that broke the wrong rules. The pay is good. The rules are simple: Don’t ask questions. Don’t touch anything. Just follow the checklist. Until the day he breaks the only rule that matters. Drawn to a forgotten, glowing artifact, a single touch sends Arlo hurtling through the void. He awakens under a Cerulean Sun on a world of breathtaking beauty and profound brokenness, a place where mountains float, forests think, and memories are traded like currency. This alien realm is scarred by a cosmic Cataclysm, a “Tearing” in reality that feels hauntingly familiar to a DFR janitor. Armed with nothing but a multi-tool, his wits, and a janitor’s stubborn persistence, Arlo’s simple quest to get home transforms into an odyssey of survival.