The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: fantasy

  • Digital Limerence

    Cyber-romance can be quite satisfying, if you don’t mind a diet of nothing but empty calories.

  • Persecution Complex

    “I can see that they don’t like me, therefore I’m correct.”

  • Welcome to Elsewhere

    Elsewhere is an elusive place.

  • Sugar and Spice? Not.

    If I were a kid today, I’d be pretending to be Hermoine Granger.

  • The Curse of Summer Vacations

    The reality of summer never fit with my fantasies.

  • When the Love Spell is Broken

    Love is like a drug. When you’re deep in it, especially in the early stages, it’s hard to see flaws. Red flags just look like a pretty splash of color in your world. You want to bask in the fact that you seem to have found evidence of perfection, and that perfect person, against all…

  • My Own Personal Pleasantville

    For those of you who are unfamiliar with the movie “Pleasantville”, I highly recommend it. A boy from the 1990’s is obsessed with a sitcom from the 1950’s called Pleasantville. It’s your typical show of that era, showing a world that never actually existed, in black and white, where the mother wears pearls and high…

  • Whistler

    During my most recent trip to Canada, I had the opportunity to visit Whistler, which is the ski resort mecca of British Columbia. That was a surreal experience. Everything was clean and well-manicured. Even the concrete looked somehow artificial. It was like being in Disney World without the rides. That is, if everyone who visited…

  • Trying on Houses

    I’m a writer (obviously) so I have a fertile imagination. I spend a great deal of time picturing what my life would be like if this or that person were in it, or if I lived in Paris or Milan, or if I had any number of different jobs. Like my blog description says, I…

  • Are We the Stories We Tell Ourselves?

    It’s always rather disconcerting when someone else has a different version of a memory that I’ve been invested in my whole life long. Which version is correct? And if my version is wrong, how did it change over time? This is particularly unsettling when I’ve told a story time and time again to explain why…