Nigel James Wilson was born in Sheffield, the ‘City of Steel’, on 20th May 1966. From a very young age he was working in his father’s bicycle shop, building wheels by hand amongst a myriad of other jobs, six days a week. Later he took an apprenticeship in the shop’s cellar and workshop, building bespoke steel cycle frames with the master frame builder himself, Nigel’s father, Mr. J. F. Wilson. Better still, Nigel was brought home there after his birth in Jessop Hospital to the shop house. And, at the time of writing 57 years later, he is still there, living, working and now writing in a lifestyle unique, in his father’s 104th year anniversary and his shop’s 75th anniversary, which this book happens to mark.
In this compendium, you will find poems that are not too long, that will encourage you to read and enjoy poetry.Delightfully entertaining, humorous short stories.Quirky, innovative and thought-provoking observational prose.And a set of five pieces of written work that the author – so far – has not been able to, or does not want to classify, for want of a superlative title.Nigel says, “All of my works mentioned above are helping you to escape from the hell of the modern media world, which you are now, unfortunately, standing in up to and over your head.”This, Mr. Wilson’s second book, Straining Your Psyche Through the Veil, like his first book, Stories for All the Children of All the Worlds, is yet another perfectly fitting key to the unlocking of the door of escapism.“With my books, I’m pulling you up and away from out of the modern-day brainwashing swamp of the media.”“Enter and close the door of escapism behind you by opening my book, and now that you have escaped, lock it, by reading and turning the pages!”To paraphrase and quote Nigel again:“The book that is now in your hands is your ticket fully out of here.And so, it is worth more than every penny.I hope that this for you is naturally and unnaturally clear,And doubt that that goes for the many.”
A good number of years after I wrote this story, astronomers reported stars making music.
It only goes to prove that so-called ‘fantasy’ is reality catching up with it!
But to those with an imagination – or, should I say, an understanding of reality – they are always in tandem.
The enclosed story is related to another one of my stories, entitled ‘Magic Cups and a Saucer,’ that can be found in my first book, Stories for all the Children of all the Worlds.
Happy reading to everyone.
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