Untold Stories
Illustration Vectors by Vecteezy I love serendipity! I've been toying with a blog topic for a couple of weeks and have even received a couple of responses for future publication. The basic topic is storytelling and title of the blog asks people to "Tell Me A Story". More on this below. Friday April 26,2024, on ABC's Good Morning, America there was an item about a new book, Cemetery for Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez. Brief synopsis of the book: an author decides to literally bury a pile of unfinished manuscripts in a cemetery plot and be done with them. But the characters in the manuscripts protest and haunt her to finish their stories. That sounded so intriguing, I had to go on Amazon and purchase the book! I am about one third into the book and Alma, the protagonist is expressing some of my exact thoughts. The epigraph is a simple four words: Tell me a story. I swear, and have witnesses, that I started using that phrase bef...