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I think, but I'm not perfectly sure, that Don The Professor, was either my second or third story. I was listening to Don, writing my little tail off and trying to keep up, when all of a sudden his wife, Lisa, started telling me, "No, that's not how it was. Don's wrong!" But Don insisted he was right. So I had no choice but to write Lisa's story after I got done with Don. Then to my dismay, two other people got inside my head and told me their side of the story. I had a lot of fun with this, but it was a lot of work getting the stories synchronized. I remember sitting at an old 15 inch CRT monitor, the four stories side by side, and changing them one by one. While each story tells the same facts, I think the perspective is different in each. Perhaps some of my inspiration for this came from Alan Ayckbourn and his Norman Conquests, a series of three plays that take place in a parlour, a kitchen and a garden. The same characters exist in each play, and the plot is the same, but the order in which the plot is revealed (and the jokes,) differ from play to play. If you get the chance to go to one or all three of the plays, it's quite worth it. You'll do a little better, I think, if you read them in the order listed, but each one would work fine as a single short story. By the way, just because these people temporarily inhabit my brain, it doesn't mean I like them all! Some time later, Don and Lisa started telling me some of their other stories, and they are presented as add-ons. Neither has chatted with me in some years, but I keep wondering if they'll come back from wherever they went to. |
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