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When I was a little girl, I used to make up stories to play house. The characters of my dolls changed

with each games. In elementary school, I have started writing little stories. They're in lost notebooks. In another world, in a magical library, they could be on a shelf with other people's lost stories.

The period when I did the least amount of story writing was during my high school and university years. That was when I was trying to be an expert in poetry.

When my daughter Zehra Su was born, I have started making up fairy tales, tales that grew with my daughter. At bedtime, about fairies and sweet, motherly children. Some of them were set in worlds with fairies who disappeared horribly if the children didn't finish their meals.

I continued making up similar bedtime stories with my younger daughter Zeynep Ada. Sometimes the worlds of green caterpillars, which had become endangered due to children playing with tablets before going to sleep, would blend into the worlds of children trying to catch red balloons in their dreams.

To summarize, I love writing various stories, fairy tales, articles, poems. I also like traveling to new places and reading new stories. Sometimes I draw pictures and sometimes I make objects out of ceramic paste that no one can recognize. Sailing is also a great passion of mine. Inspiration often finds me in the middle of the sea.

Suzan Orto, The Child in the Prophecy is my first whim.

I was born on a fall day in 1979. I live in Bursa, the city where I was born and where I spent my primary, secondary, high school and university life, with my daughters Zehra Su, Zeynep Ada and my dogs Harmoni and Luna...