Clara Gerl has been writing for years since 1985. Simple poems of snow and powerful wizards and warriors were always part of her mind. Then her mind began expanding as new sensations of growing up and experiencing new things paved their way to let her imagination run wild.

"I suppose my first real significant character was Kirakah who I also called Beauty at the time. When I was eight I had a dream of a dreary world and a woman with a powerful sword. That woman was named Beauty for her charisma was uncanny and almost as adept as her dexterity. Then there was Estella. An innocent woman who found herself wisked away into the arms of a mythical figure, Jerin the son of "Labyrinth's" goblin king Jareth. Other characters followed such as Ada, Alandra and Calisto…then I thought about the fae and how one of them could be the essence of creation and name my chracters as her 'children.'

"The conception of her children is both a spiritual and mystical one. At times she stands near her gate that is kept locked with powerful threads she spins coming from glamour of various sources. Then a dream arrives. She stares into it, seeking its essence and if she likes it, the dream and her converge into a powerful bond where they spiritually make love in a sense. The product of this spiritual exchange either leads to a huge source of glamour, or what she calls a 'child' who is given a part of her realm behind her gates to live in their own world…completely different from the world in which the gatekeeper exists.

"Since she is the fae of creation and spiritually makes love to dreams to obtain her stories (or otherwise called children) I named her 'Euphoria.' A named I coined for myself when I was working with techno music and when I thought about it, the name fit her perfectly. She watches her children grow in their separate realms and upon a loom weaves their legend into a tapestry for others to read if she deems them worthy."

I hope you enjoy "Child of Magick, Child of Eve" as Gerl watches the Gatekeeper give birth to the character Liana. Following the mythos of the fae as the 'hidden children of Eve' Gerl saw this as a successful story line where the Seelie are saved and the Unseelie get what is coming to them. She stares upon Euphoria's loom and together human and fae merge while Gerl types what she sees down on a mundane keyboard and the Gatekeeper continues to weave as she watches Liana's happy ending.