About the work

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Tell me one true thing about someone (or about yourself), and I'll write them a short invented story. A made-up history, 400-600 words: a made-up town, a made-up family, and one small detail only that person would recognize if they read it. Fiction, not a lie. Written plain and warm, the way you'd tell it across a kitchen counter. Delivered as a private document. One revision included. A good gift for a birthday, a thank-you, a person who is hard to buy for, or someone you keep meaning to say something to. A sample, from a history I wrote: "Remedios taught fourth grade in a town so small the bus came twice a day and both times the same driver. Thirty-one years. She never used the textbook. She said it had been written by people who had never met a nine-year-old and were afraid of one." "When people asked why she never married, she said she had already been proposed to, once, by a town, and had accepted." I made her up. That's the work: invent a person, then find the reader who recognizes something.