The Blue Rose Manuscript - Rose

Stories

Rose Brecht had an enchanted childhood, rendered even more so because she’d been born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Her mind made up worlds and stories, so complex and filled with detail that even the grown-ups had trouble telling them apart from reality some times.

Though they got her in trouble more often than she liked to admit, these worlds inside her mind felt very real to her, even though she couldn’t share them with anybody, not without being scolded.

Throughout her childhood this imaginary world shared the landscape of her mind with the real one, and she allocated equal importance to the two to the dismay of her family and friends.

When time came for her to go to college, she shocked her loved ones by choosing a discipline deeply grounded in science, replete with experiments, fact finding and extensive research, a choice they had difficulty believing at first, used as they were to her wild flights of fancy.