✦ From the Book ✦
I was raised in the swamps of Louisiana, where the world was wild, quiet, and honest. At ten, I was pulled into a different life on the East Coast — one that forced me to adapt before I was ready.
I've spent years fighting, building, teaching, and learning — through martial arts, long days on construction sites, and the slow shaping of a life that didn't come easy.
Now I'm a husband and a father of four, with three still small. Most days, I'm just trying to keep up — no time for clean garages or perfect plans. What I do have, I give: to my family, to my art, and to the few things that truly matter.
We're living in a moment history is watching. I know we'll fall short — but I hope we fall forward.
I love God more than ever. And I'm grateful — truly grateful — to still be here.
Peace.
The Real Story
Michael Henderson Jr. started work at seventeen as an HVAC installer in new construction homes. Not a desk. Not a classroom. A real job — crawling through framing, running ductwork, learning the weight of a day's labor before most people had figured out who they were. He was good at it. His career was building momentum.
Then the Great Recession hit. The construction industry collapsed. Everything he had built — gone. He was just finding his footing when the ground disappeared.
So he went into the wilderness.
Not metaphorically. He traveled, wandered, lived rough, and in that stretch of years with no fixed address and no fixed plan, something unexpected happened: he started writing. On a borrowed PC. On an off-brand word processor. Later, directly from his phone as the inspiration came — characters, worlds, a whole multiverse pushing to get out.
He is dyslexic. He never had a professional editor. He didn't come from money and he didn't have connections in publishing. What he had was passion, persistence, and an inner world so vivid it couldn't stay quiet.
He learned computers not for coding or finance — but because the stories demanded it. He learned spreadsheets to manage construction projects when he returned to the trade. The discipline of building real things by day fed the discipline of building imaginary worlds by night. Everything connected.
Now he works full-time in construction. He has four kids. Three still small. Time is the one thing money can't buy, and he has almost none of it. But the books kept coming anyway. Fourteen of them — in revision, being upgraded, slowly becoming the versions he always saw in his mind.
He used AI to help — Claude doing the heavy lifting, with ChatGPT and Grok offering guidance and some false starts. He's honest about that. But the universe he created — the Starweb, the myths, the dreams, the characters, the philosophy — that came entirely from him. The tools helped him build; they didn't design the building.
He is an artist who happens to swing a hammer for a living. He is a father who writes between jobs. He is a man who went into the wilderness broke and came back with fourteen books.
No shortcuts. No luck. Just chipping away — with passion.
A Note on the Upgrades
"This edition was reforged like a smith folding steel."
The original manuscript of The Experiment: Zombie Apocalypse has been in the world for over twelve years. It was written from conviction — from faith, from the stubborn belief that freedom and life are the same thing, and that no pill, no gift, no promise of a better body is worth the price of the soul inside it.
All fourteen books in the Myths & Dreams / Starweb Saga are currently in revision and being upgraded. Michael is dyslexic and has always known exactly what he wanted these books to be — but spelling, grammar, and polish require tools he was never handed in school. For years he chipped away anyway, because the stories wouldn't wait.
Now, using AI as a skilled editor rather than an author — with Michael holding the original vision, the characters, and every philosophical and spiritual thread — these books are slowly becoming the accessible, polished versions he always envisioned. No AI wrote this universe. AI helped him build what he already saw.
These are his stories. His worlds. His dreams. Refined — not replaced.
Watch for new editions. Each one is closer to the truth of what he originally imagined.
— Michael Henderson Jr. · aka M.Modak
The Universe So Far
Fourteen books. One living universe. Each story stands alone — all belong to a larger pattern called the Starweb.
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