“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country.” - C.S. Lewis “The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in, no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.” - The Secret Garden , Frances Hodgson Burnett When I was about six or seven years old, I wrote a story called Skelly the Skeleton . It followed the story of a prince who had been turned into a living skeleton by a witch called Calcolm. Skelly was condemned to live in an enchanted forest awaiting, as the fairytale cliché dictates, true love’s first kiss to turn him human again. I used to narrate episodes to myself in the playground, endlessly adding and taking bits out. It first materiali
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