Surviving the Fringe

A Short Reflection on a Long Journey

From the time I was a kid, my mind ran toward the strange and the shadowy corners of the world. I ate up Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World and Leonard Nimoy’s In Search Of. Later it was Unsolved Mysteries and Sightings. But it wasn’t just TV. Back when the library was the closest thing we had to the internet, I practically lived in it. I checked out a…