*I wrote this story years ago, and I'm glad to publish it here now. It shares the title with an essay by George MacDonald. Many of the ideas that inspired the story share elements from the imagination of both MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, especially those found in Grahame's lesser-known work The Golden Age , in which his reminiscences about childhood are developed. MacDonald's fairy tales factored in much more than his prose, and I still return to them when my imagination needs to be refreshed. The Fantastic Imagination On the eve of a very important birthday for them both, for the boy and girl were twins -- though the boy had golden hair and the girl's was dark as night -- they woke with a start. "What is it?" he asked. "I'm sure I don't know," said she. It was a dull sound, a muted call from the deep forest that spread itself in all directions around their stone house. Without a word more the two children rose and looked ...
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