The Fantasist

About the Book

Does an insane man doubt his insanity like a sane man doubts his sanity? Is an artist insane? Can a sane man even imagine the trials an artist must attest to? What is it that makes an artist? An artist experiences weirdness so bottomless even his own mind cannot comprehend it. An artist feels strangeness in seeing things. It is like looking at a tree and systematically stripping it to its core or like looking into another person’s mind and understanding that person’s eccentricities. An artist is otherworldly. An artist is separate. An artist is separated from the lives and souls of normal humanity; separated from the realities that without the filter of normalcy mean full time horror and madness. The power of the light burning just outside my perception forces my spirit into ever deeper regions of desolation where the forces of evil and good battle for the beautiful golden diamond ring on the finger of the luscious shining Magellan in her amber beaded gown. Fantasies are all I have; life is a nightmare in the light; love is a specter in the dark; and I am but a caretaker of all that I know. I am the Fantasist. I am like a falcon diving into eternity.

About the Author

Ricky Hall is an old hippie born in 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He grew up in Colorado, Texas, and graduated high school in Arkansas. All through high school, and a little after, he drag raced a Volkswagen and set several IHRA national records. Later he worked as a mechanic and painter, then retail and restaurant worker. He went to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville from 1979–1981, studying English, and Tarrant County Junior College in Texas from 1989–1991 and received an associate in applied computer science degree there. He has been reading and writing fantasy and science fiction since the sixth grade. As a kid, he was a cowboy, a flower child in the sixties, and a gear head since the seventies. He’s been married, has one child, and five grandchildren. Nowadays, he is planning to build a land speed race car to take to Bonneville Salt Flats in a few years as part of his bucket list, on which publishing a fantasy was at the top.