03.05.01
So, Overlord Carol is all paranoid that my short story for Creative Writing is all about her life.
I assured her that no, it wasn't the story of her life. I mean, she doesn't have an alcoholic 15 year-old daughter, does she? She doesn't clean houses for a living, her husband isn't a mechanic, her oldest daughter didn't run away and disappear when she was 18, and child protective services splitting up your family as a child and your mother beating the shit out of you and kicking you out of the house are two totally different situations, even if they both end you up in a foster home, I'm fairly sure.
Sure, the rest of the stuff is pretty much dead on, but those are just coincidental details, I tell you.
It's all fiction! Fiction, I tell you!
