If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.
We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.
(n.) One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember.
It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.
It was for me a moment of great peace. I did not know then that it was the last, the very last moment of peace, the end of the old innocent world, the final moment before I was plunged into the nightm...
Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, the universal narrator's voice you may well be hearing right now. Whose voice *is* it you're hearing?...