NON-FICTION
The best of stories I have read have led me to places I
would not have journeyed on my own. Trapped within my
own subjective reality, I’m often confounded by the limits of
my own thinking. I would like to be able to surprise myself,
but I rarely do. I’m always utterly aware of what I think, if
not why, and the banality of my own patterns can fill me
with dismay. Of course I experience wonder in my engagements with other people, or in my interactions with nature
or art, or music. But my own consciousness can begin to
sound like Marvin the Paranoid Android. Not so much
because I have the brain the size of a planet, but because
I’m trapped within my own conscious self-consciousness.
What can a body do?
We can read….
Stories are powerful devices. And, like all powerful
devices, they are capable of doing great harm as well as
great good. Traditionally published fiction in North America has been predominantly representational fiction. The
stories are recreations of known or reco ۚ^