Sunday, September 7, 2014

HOW DO YOU START A STORY?

     A male friend arrives in the middle of a conversation with an acquaintance. He is agitated and seems to have lost his voice and you asked, "What happened?" And he stammered," Somebody with a gun has just shoot down an elderly man at the corner liquor store."
     And then the usual questions posed by a journalist: Who is the person? Who was killed? Why was he killed? How was he killed? And so forth and so on.
     You have a picture of the incident. If it was murder, you ask why was the man killed?  A love triangle ? The man was married? Did he belong to a gang? Why was he in the store?
     Can one make a story out of  the narrative of the new arrival? How do you begin the story? Who is the story teller? Can you make the dead man the narrator of the story. Can you start the story with him seeing the gun firing toward his heart? The last seconds of his life, as the start of the story?
     



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