Sunday, November 06, 2011

100 Words: The beginning

I sit around the fire with a group that thinks they know me. Someone poses the question: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?

Responses are as expected – sex, alcohol, arrests. When it’s my turn I follow suit, telling a drunken story they’ve heard before. But all the while I’m wondering who else, like me, is hiding the truth.

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I don’t write fiction. I write about my life. And for a long time I’ve been omitting a rather significant detail.

What’s the craziest thing I’ve ever done? I fell for someone I’d never met.

I fell for one of you.