Wait till youi start scribbling a few lines, and it turns into a short story. MOst of our stories are "what if?" ones, which tear the tragedy happily to pieces, but some of us, like me, circumnavigate the action of the short story and play, and explain, prequel and sequel...it's a kind of 'when we say the name of those we deeply reverence, we never speak them whole." --"Orlando" (talking about Shakespeare, 3 centurties after she saw him, sitting at a table, thinking)
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It is SUCH fun! Right now, I'm about to start reading about the Battle of Borodino, so I can canibalize my son's high school hstiory paper, that I typed for him...
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