Where Tales Grip

Flash back to your youth, where you are holding open your favorite book. To the world, you are simply gazing at the pages, your eyes moving back and forth. To you, the words disappear as your captured imagination transforms them into a mental film with special effects shaper and more elaborate than anything you can witness on any screen. You are gone, transported by your imagination out of your body and out of your surroundings. Ah, the power and wonder of a captured imagination! To have your imagination, inconceivable in size and strength, focused on a story that you become part of, a willing participant in events and locations that would not be possible in the real world.Are you still able to do it? As an adult, can your imagination still be captured as easily as when you were young? Or have you fallen into a classic mind trap? How many times in your life were you told "you need to grow up?" Ouch! Five words that are like Kryptonite to an imagination. Quick! Get gripped in the great stories featured in this anthology. Prove to yourself that you've still got an imagination worthy of being captured. Become a role model for those with a squelched imagination. The authors in this anthology who want to capture your imagination are: Virginia M. Amis, William E. Burleson, Lynn C. Miller, Nancy Canyon, Ronna L. Edelstein, Denise P. Kalm, Phillip Frey, Theresa Jenner Garrido, Bear Kosik, Anna-Claire McGrath, Leslie Muzingo, JoDean Nicolette, Bill Frank Robinson, Joseph J. Salerno, Michelle Wotowiec, and Steve Putnam