“Kids are bent. They think around corners. But starting roughly at age eight, when childhood’s second great era begins, the kinks begin to straighten out, one by one. The boundaries of thought and vision begin to close down to a tunnel as we gear up to get along. At last, unable to grapple to any profit with Never-Never Land anymore, we may settle for the minor league version available at the local disco…or for a trip to Disney World one February or March.
“The imagination is an eye, a marvelous third eye that floats free. As children, that eye sees with 20/20 clarity. As we grow older, its vision begins to dim…and one day the guy at the door lets you into the bar without asking to see and ID and that’s it for you, Cholly; your hat is over the windmill. It’s in your eyes. Something in your eyes. Check them out in the mirror and tell me if I’m wrong.
“The job of the fantasy writer, of the horror writer, is to bust the walls of that tunnel vision wide for a little while; to provide a single powerful spectacle for the third eye. The job of the fantasy-horror writer is to make you, for a little while, a child again.”
– DANSE MACABRE, Stephen King
About Me
I'm an amateur writer and occasional blogger. Relevant skills include a middling grasp of grammar, possession of a dictionary, willingness to learn, the ability to pick myself up after a failure, and standing on my head to make the ideas fall out.
