Cultureshock

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Stories are about who we are now as well as about who we been in the past, and from my earliest childhood stories had been forming and building me like the foundations and bricks in a house. Firstly fairy stories from ladybird books, fantastic illustrations or from listen with mother on the radio or a weekly comic i would get called play hour. Sometimes if i was really lucky, stories invented by my dad or my grandma. Somewhere still in my imagination, there is a boy called tom living in the woods that my grandma described waiting for grand adventures with me. I remember reading the Narnia books for the first time when i was about 7 or 8, walking through the wardrobe door in to C.S. Lewis' stories and watching the beginning of Narnia in the Magician's Nephew when Aslan calls out all of the animals in to creation from the smooth green turf of Narnian soil, just like God making all the animals in Eden. Bumps and humps become animals, breaking out, becoming themselves. The stories didn't stop there, as well as reading more and more, i studied in english, how to write and to make my own stories and i brought thousands upon thousands of books which now fill my house. Unlike mysterious creatures emerging from under the ground, characters and stories have come out of my own head and grown in to themselves with a life of their own. I've always written, written as a teen, angst filled fiction and poetry and then in my twenties in the odd five minutes you get to yourself as a young mum looking after four children and now with the children all at school and with a computer, i write through the night while every one in the house sleeps or during the day and it is a real luxury to have time to do this. Now i have written two full length books, and hopefully my stories will go galloping in to the world one day part of my future as well as my past.