There is fiction in the space between
You and reality
You will do and say anything
To make your everyday life
Seem less mundane
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- – Tracy Chapman,
Telling Stories
In mid-September, a friend called to tell me that a woman writer in one of the outer circles of my life went into the hospital in June, thinking she had a stomach problem, to learn that she had massive colon cancer. They operated on her, sepsis set in, and she was in the ICU for five weeks.