All of us tell tales. We share our triumphs and tribulations with each other, we pass on gossip, we search for meaning and significance in our own experience and in each other's. Sometimes this involves reading fiction, which at its best universalizes the particular, thus offering us understanding, catharsis and a sense of being healed.
If you have time on your hands over the weekend, you might like to have a go at a writing exercise. Think about the narratives which people create for themselves, try and explore the need for that narrative and then look at what happens if it is breached or subverted. There's a whole short story right there, waiting to be written.
I'd be interested to see what you come up with, so if you'd like to send me five hundred words or so of what you have written, I'd happily critique the first ten that I receive for free.
Have a great weekend...
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