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“My parents were married when they had me, just to different people.”
The first line of writer Isaac Fitzgerald's new memoir in essays,
“Dirtbag, Massachusetts.”
For years I’ve been teaching a class
called Good Stories.
I often download tips from Other People:
The Elements of Story a popular subject.
Settings characters plots
voice and then, endings.
Most good stories I know
often break rules. A few years ago
someone sat on the porch and said:
I had four husbands and three
of them died. Guess how?
(Hers is a very good story).
Really a fun post, as well as the one about the house being so quiet after the kids left. Ain’t it so! Marlyn
What did you guess? They must’ve all suffered the same fate. Might have been the Happy Rockefeller Fate. That might have been something for her to boast about.