A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.
When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.
It's painful to consider anything but writing.
Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.