Why a raven? Why a desk?

or, an introduction

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” - James A Michener

Ever since I first learned how to read, I always had a book in my hands. I would toddle around and grab onto the nearest book, and sit down and babble out the stories to the closest person who would listen, often to said person's chagrin (After all, I'm sure there's only so many times one could listen to a child read out Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein before it gets old.)

But I could not get enough of the words, fascinated how even the simplest letters could turn into the most elaborate and fantastical stories. I would read, and suddenly I wasn't sitting in my living room anymore, or listening to lectures in class. (Apologies to my grade school teachers whose classes I read through.) In these stories I was in another world entirely, one where Mysterious Islands exist and diving 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea is an everyday occurrence.

Where people become Things Not Seen and can travel Around the World in 80 Days.

Where a Death on the Nile becomes a great mystery, and the Death of a Salesman is a life lesson we can all learn from.

Where smiling cats and Mad Hatter's join for tea, and Once Upon a Time is a key to never ending imagination.

There was something magical about the things I discovered in reading, and when I started writing myself, I was suddenly able to perform that same magic. I was able to take those swirling words and show others the same amazing things that I was seeing.

This publication is my own way of making sense of the tangle of emotions that I experience with works of literature and film or even video games, and sharing them with you. It's my own original writing mixed with the eager, sincere rambling of my brain saying: 'This is the magic that I am seeing; can you see it too?'

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