Bethsinitaly

For as long as she could remember, Bernadette had been able to close her eyes on the real world and walk through the inner doorway to her imagination.
As the years passed, she discovered countless new worlds, met a never-ending stream of exotic strangers from far off lands, and joined them in their unusual, exciting endeavours whenever she could.
On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Bernadette arrived at a monumental decision. Anyone could tell that she didn’t like the real world much at all – humanity was disappointing at best. It seemed hell-bent on celebrating stupidity and, as a result of that fact, seemed doomed to repeat past mistakes for eternity.
Determined not to let herself get dragged down by the rest of humanity, she closed her eyes and walked through the doorway to her imagination for the very last time.
These days she works as a first-class bartender at the Golden Goose, a raucous dockside establishment run by her best friend and mentor Fiburnius Tarrow — Berni to all his friends.
She rents a small cosy room above the tavern for a steal, and in her free hours she scribbles down stories of the adventures told to her by the patrons of the Goose, before sending them off by piskie express mail to her contact in the real world for publication — a girl’s gotta make a living at the end of the day!