Good storytelling is about connecting people with ideas, concepts, and what makes us a culture. It relates characters to the reader in a visceral way. It's about communicating - our morals, our values, the good, bad, and the ugly. Joseph Campbell said that storytelling was about passing down our hopes and aspirations from one generation to the next. It is how we, as descendants, learn what our ancestors believed in. At its best, storytelling let's us transcend our present awareness for something beyond the five senses. We imagine, therefore we exist. The Universe Bound series is a collection of stories from Mythical Legends' authors during a certain year and or revolves around a particular theme. In this first edition, the theme is that of perseverence . . . and hope . . . and triumph.