Amy Henrie Gillett hopes to kindle people's hearts and minds by contributing a little light to a world that sometimes seems so dark. And so the story of how "All Light and Darkness"—published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 34—came to be as told by Amy.

When Author Services sent me a request to add a fantasy fiction story to Volume 34 of the Writers of the Future anthologies, Jody Lynn Nye was excited. They asked if she had any tales in her archive that would fit into the theme of wizardry and magic. And that's the start of what became "Illusion."