Why keep a writing notebook?
Because when you leaf through it you find things you have absolutely no memory of writing. Like this:
Once upon a time, in a little cottage at the edge of a village, lived a girl with long braids the color of gingersnaps. Her eyes were brown and her freckles were like a sift of cinnamon sugar on toast, and she had a secret no one knew, not even her best friend, who was a cat named Murder.
The secret was hidden in a hollow tree trunk and she visited it on Sundays...
Published on October 20, 2009 21:30