Richard Lawson wrote:

I started to write it in a modern-day setting, some random college student 
being yoinked from Earth, but it ended up sounding way too much like a 
self-insert, which I didn't want at all.

Anyone have an idea for a setting for such a story?

I've got an idea but not that kind.  If the problem is that you want to 
avoid the odor of self-insertion, perhaps what you should go is to make 
the character more different, not the world he comes from.  For example, 
  what if he was yoinked when he was eight?  He was on the milk cartons 
for years, but he's a young adult now because it took time to train the 
monkey to dance.

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