Looking for Father-Daughter Lines

What is a story but a wish? In the absence of reality the imagination wanders. I travel through Arthurian England in a veil of mist. Above me I hear the strange bellows of a dragon. A shadow covers me and I search for an escape, finding only a staircase to the stars. I ascend into an Escher painting in which I’m really under the staircase, going down. Imagination forever doesn’t answer the question, “Why not?” but keeps asking.

–Nnett in The Other Side of Nothing, Fall 1999