Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Fifty-One

Story as Seed

by
Alexander M Zoltai

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She was an aspiring writer…

“Aspiring” in its original sense, “to breathe on”…

There were the breaths of her poetry on her website; those of her essays in various magazines; and, some works where she was holding her breath—most dearly held was the novel, tentatively called, We All Fall Down….

It was to be a “moral tale”—ethical lessons taught through the lives of its characters.

She was hyper-aware of the supposed “sin” of “didactic writing”—“…wor...