The thought of a childhood without any fantasy just conjures up the most treacherous upbringing I could possibly imagine. I can’t say I had a Stranger Things obsession with monsters, I only dabbled in D&D for a very short period of time, but even though I rarely strayed too far from home when I was young, ten feet into the woods behind our house and I might as well have been ten million miles—and centuries—away: land was conquered; fortresses built, destroyed and rebuilt; monsters outrun; and kingdoms saved. Forget that any of it made anything close to sense, it was simply fun, and it was our little troupes playground. Maybe a few kids saving the day is what we all need about now.—Dominick
