Portal fantasy

You’ve prob­a­bly read a por­tal fan­ta­sy. It’s just a sto­ry where the char­ac­ters are trans­port­ed from our world to some oth­er world, usu­al­ly by mag­i­cal means, often through a door of some kind. L. Frank Baum’sThe Wiz­ard of Oz is a por­tal fan­ta­sy; so are Lewis Car­rol­l’s Alice’s Adven­tures in Won­der­land and C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I’m cur­rent­ly read­ing The Star­less Sea by Erin Mor­gen­stern, which is a lit­er­al por­tal fan­ta­sy: trav­el to the sec­ondary world is through actu­al doors, most­ly paint­ed by a char­ac­ter named Mirabel.

For well over 20 years I read Stephen King’s Dark Tow­er saga, which is a por­tal fan­ta­sy, with char­ac­ters mov­ing between Key­stone Earth (ie, our world) and Mid-World via doors that stand on beach­es, in forests, in dark­ened base­ments and haunt­ed houses.

So when I saw the blue door lean­ing against a Bell MTS build­ing, I had to stop and take a pho­to. If it was­n’t behind chain­link fence, I might just have tried turn­ing the door­knob, in case there was a world behind it.

You nev­er know.

Inter­est­ed in prints of my pho­tos? Let me know, and we can work some­thing out.