Sebastian White

*The earliest ambition, I recall having was to join the noble ranks of the British Army.

Hold on... I am getting there!

But only the second... actually at the tender age of six years - on a family walk, was to be a "writer," and this came upon myself with more a profound sense of meaningful vocation - than just about anything 'before or since,' I have ever experienced in the entirety of my life.

In actuality, a fortune teller… and here is where it gets all mysterious and ethereal…

*Cue: rolling pall of fog and strange evocative howls erupting from the dark of the night!

I digress somewhat... nevertheless, I had not told anyone at this stage of my visionary ambition! However the peculiar thing is... cue: yet more rolling emotive banks of fog - not too much however, or we would not be able to see one another, and that would just be plain daft! Then nonetheless, for good measure... even yet more eldritch sounds emanating spookily - from the chill night air.

As chance would have it… or perhaps 'not', on this very same trek, my gramps professed, that he had visited a fortune teller, and she had hence prophesized:

“One of your weee little grandchildren would be a writer!”

Well, not in so many words… but you can only barely manage to get the grasp of any conversation, which must have taken place over any glittering ethereal orb.

Baring in mind, at this juncture of my life, I had not told a living soul of my dreams - it did therefore seem somewhat auspicious.

So, in one way or the other - for my mere 44 years of life in our brief span of existence on this... effervescent ball of blue rock,

I have been aiming towards this! However squint eyed gypsies aside (a prerequisite of any self respecting Romany Traveller) staring into glowing-nebulous crystal globe's; it seems that I am not too bad at this writing lark... after all!

*Currently, I am in the process of completing my next novel for young people and those like myself - who do an "almost" passable impersonation of being an adult! This is a comic fantasy titled... The Tallest Dwarf <<< *Link

Where to find Sebastian White online: www.quirkyclaus.com/