The World of Fiction

What’s that you say? 

You’re looking for that magic high? 

Well, you won’t find it in a pill. 

You won’t find it in a bottle.

And you won’t find it in an herb. 

It’s in your mind…all the time. 

And the key can only be found and fit when you let go the bonds of fear and loose imagination.

One way is found by absorbing words that stimulate a gateway, a gateway deep inside your mind, that allows you to actually participate in an imagined realm and its story — participate the living, breathing, being, doing.  To go and be there, moment by moment, event by event. 

Yes, it really happens.  Ask any reader.

And that is what happens…when you read
…when you are so very adept at absorbing and translating the written word upon a page. 

Something happens.  Suddenly, you are transported,
…lost to the world within the pages. 

Yes, this experience is real, and it can only be tapped, only experienced one way — to read.

Movies won’t get you there.

Neither will audio books. 

It takes the printed word keying an actualizing of experience through optical delivery — live-feed directly into the mind though the process of reading. 

Try it…if you have the skill to actually read — literacy. 

If not — if you don’t have the skill and vocabulary — please don’t hesitate to leave, because you won’t find what you desire here.

…Or anywhere. 

Reading is the only gateway to this magical realm of which I speak…though, if you play a musical instrument…like the guitar…and are really, really good, and you have some exceptional musicians with whom you are “in tune,” jam sessions can get you close — very close…almost as deep…until the session ends…until the story ends.

Can’t do that either?  Okay.  Well, you you might find some solace and pale substitutes in games, videos, and TV…maybe. 

Very pale substitutes.

 But even those are better than four blank walls and saturation advertising.

…Or, you could go learn and practice reading, then come back when you have the skills and are ready to participate in what we who do “venture realm” already glean — that reading is the magical gateway to sublime — the ultimate high for the mind – an experiential ecstasy.

 zentao, editor

 The Open Book

What can be imagined…as if real — that is fiction.  Tales of times, places, and beings that intrigue, engage, captivate, and remain ever the remarkable.

HOW WE CATEGORIZE FICTION.
You’ve probably noticed that we don’t categorize fiction traditionally by “genre.”  Genres are so…vague.  I mean, imagine considering Silence of the Lambs simply ”Crime and Detective” or “Horror.” (Notice the OR) 
…How about, Chilling? 
Yes.  That describes Silence of the Lambs quite well, don’t you think?
Think about the book Legends of the Fall?  Would that be Historical or Western?  Both? 
McCaffrey’s Pern series?  Pure Fantasy?  Nope.  It’s both Science Fiction AND Fantasy, but, mostly, it’s about DRAGONS and DRAGON RIDERS — the draw of the books.
So we “categorize” by emotional classifications, and, sometimes, by what the motion picture industry  labels “thematic content” — dragons, space adventure, romantic magical adventure, and so on.  Hope it helps.  If it doesn’t, well, we’ve also labelled them according to their more traditional classifications and also given you a story blurb you can read to see if the tale might interest you.

FOR THE YOUNG IN HEART & MIND

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