Author Description

FANTASY CASTLE; A GAME OF THE IMAGINATION A good imagination on the part of the player makes some games more interesting and fun; some games require more. Some games require all you have to give and then some. School, out for the summer, has left these children with nothing to do. DAVE WOODS and ISAIAH SCOTT are bored until Dave's younger brother BRIAN, finds a game in a specialty shop down in old-town. The store itself is a mystery when the building seems to have been renovated overnight and opened for business. A game box, displayed in the front window appears to be the only item for sale. The boys pool their money to buy the game. While Isaiah and Brian are eager to play the game just for something to do, Dave's reaction is quite different. He feels an overwhelming need to play; almost as if he is being drawn to the game by invisible strings. The need proves almost more than he can handle, until after much delay, they finally sit down to play. Everything seems to go wrong at once, when the boys and Isaiah's sister HANNAH; the fourth player, are sucked into the game where a good imagination, proves to be the only tool of survival. Separated immediately by the choices each of them make, Isaiah, Brian and Hannah embark on an adventure; a journey of understanding, trust and friendship. While for Dave, his imagination has landed him in a world of fear, dark tunnels and nothing less than his worst nightmare. Always the one in control; some in his school have called him a bully; he now feels what it must be like to be on the other end. Too late, Dave finds out that the game is much more than imagination and that it won't let go until the right choices are made and past wrongs are righted. When the game is finally over Brian, Isaiah and Hannah have doubts about Dave and wonder if he really came back or has someone else returned to take his place. How would you play? Can you imagine playing a game where the game itself sets down the rules after you start?