I Don't Get the Lamps

When I started writing the opening scenes of The Grand Revolution of Lakeside I had already decided that it was going to be a work of magical realism. If you don't know that term, it's a story where the rules of the real world apply with perhaps one or two exceptions. If the author moves beyond one or two things, the work is rapidly moving into the fantasy genre. In Lakeside , haunted lamps grace…