The British say that the car keys have “gone missing.” When I first heard this as a child, it made me imagine missing as a place. I thought those lost keys had to be somewhere, perhaps between the sofa cushions, or stuffed away in a coat pocket in the closet. This notion led me to […]
Part Two As a writer of autofiction short stories, I share personal experiences that do not depend entirely on factual information. I employ literary devices like metaphor, irony, and imagery to unlock dimensions hidden in rare moments of memory and enrich them. Imaginative storytelling turns the diary of what happened to me into what happened
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It is remarkable how memory rises to the surface, creating moments of joy. Oddly enough, I joined my writer friends at a book launch held the day after the election. Thirty-some folks, mostly women, sat in the audience, enthralled as the author read her engaging family stories. The setting was on the covered patio of
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The challenge is to transfer autobiographical facts to the fictional page. This self-portrait writing method, autofiction for short, uses fictional devices and embellishments to reach a more nuanced emotional truth. The memoirist cannot elaborate like the autofiction writer because these non-factual additions are not in their factual toolkit. Events in my past can be so
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