![]() #THE DRAGON KEEPER TRILOGY FULL#Ike Raff, the grumpy old man who owned the cigar store Charlie Hicks, the seven-foot-tall homeless man who marched in the Memorial Day parade in a full Cherokee regalia, and even the scary Mrs. Pigglewiggle, old people were especially magical to us. Taking our cue from the Professor in the Narnia books, Mary Poppins, and Mrs. The world shimmered with latent magic and we lived our days in a state of heightened expectation. We were writing (and drawing), not so much for posterity as to conjure a world that, we fervently hoped, would one day open its magical portals and take us in. Whenever we had writer’s block, we simply drew maps. Our characters lived on islands that were shaped in their own likenesses for instance, the unicorns lived on an island shaped like a unicorn head, where there was, naturally, a Cape Horn and a Beard Bay. I can’t remember the plot but I do know that it featured a cast of unicorns, elves, fairies, and an evil magician whose name, Pezlar, was inspired by our favorite candy. ![]() We wrote our epic in multi-colored inks (Justine had gotten this nifty set of colored plastic quills for her birthday) in a series of classic black and white composition notebooks, whose white spaces we colored in so that every time we touched them, we got rainbows on our fingertips. Thackeray)-embarked upon a fantasy epic of our own. Nesbit (and countless other works of fantasy recommended to us by our imperious rouge-cheeked librarian, Mrs. ![]() It all began in the fourth grade when my best friend, Justine and I-inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia, Curdie and the Princess, The Wonderful Journey to the Mushroom Planet, the books of E. ![]()
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