WRITING TASK Imagine that like Lucy, you find a portal from the real world into an imaginary one. Write a vivid description of your experience as you travel through the portal to the imaginary world on the other side. Your description should use all the senses.

I was traveling fast through the portal. I could barely breathe, the air was so thin. I could smell the rotting smell of dead grass and I could see the hombre of blues and purples. The velocity of speed sounded like howling wind on a cold night. I felt for something to grab on to, but I only felt the absence of a lever or a house. I was scared for my life. I fell to the ground, not knowing where I was, I called for someone to help.

Nobody answered.

the answer is: tabard inn, southwark.

in "the canterbury tales," by geoffrey chaucer, the twenty-nine diverse group of pilgrims is staying at a tavern in southwark, london, as they are traveling to canterbury. they wish to visit the relics of saint thomas becket in canterbury   cathedral in order to him for his when they underwent necessities.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can