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Shift into the Shadows with Marcus DeHart… Quote by John Ashbery Poem from Robert Louis Stevenson – Shadow March Guest Conversation with Marcus DeHart Here is a little about Marcus from his website (http://www.marcusdehart.com/): “Marcus DeHart is a professional writer and designer and the sole owner of Caret Marketing and Content Development. Marcus is a [...]

“We write the future of our past a from what we wish to remember…sometimes, we let our imagination insert stories that were lesser characters and make them our heroes, instead of the props they started out as.” John E. Murray, III

“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” Aesop

“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” Derek Walcott

Time stands still when you do not carry a watch. Time also stands still when you do not know what time is…We can hide from reality and even be put in places to help us pretend more. However, we can not dismiss reality when the lights around us signify changes. Tessa went into the home [...]

“What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!” Jane Austen

Children have adventures when the rest of us are simply living our lives. Siblings have even more special adventures in between fights and scream fests. This story begins with a mother listening into the stories of two sisters playing in their bedroom. “Lets fly a kite and get stuck in the air,” says the littlest [...]

Have you ever thought that the horse of a different color could be real? What if the wish of one little girl helped make this fantasy more of a reality? What if the horse changed colors depending on the mood it was in? What if? What if? That is what the 6 year old little [...]

Grandma has not been feeling well recently. In fact, her grandchildren think that she is starting to lose more than her memory. She seems to have intimate conversations with her cat. One day, however, her littlest granddaughter over hears one of those conversations…both sides… This story connects the imagination of a little one with the [...]

Shucking corn had always been something Mary and her family did. With husks and little “hairs” lying together in a heap on the table, they never noticed the even thinner wisps of light that seemed to fade and float away…Where do they go? What are they? These little creatures are actually the ones who take [...]

Life is the big city is tough enough. However, when a grown man starts seeing unicorns, elves, and trolls, life becomes even more difficult. He can not explain or share with anyone what he sees or why he sees it. However, this poor soul has watch the trolls throw tacks on the roadway and laugh [...]

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Carl Sagan

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” Francis Bacon

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” George Bernard Shaw

“Memory feeds imagination.” Amy Tan