Excerpt From A Story I'll Never Write


I keep running across these strange fragments that are too delicious to ignore, and yet they are unusable. A good writer is supposed to "kill his babies" because the too-delicious fragments halt the reader in his tracks, and disrupt the story-telling process.

That, of course, doesn't mean that they can't stand as blog posts of their own.

Driven to prostitution, Susan pointed out that things could be worse. At one time, for instance, she had been forced to take the bus to prostitution....

Now, you see what I mean.

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