“Have you ever thought of writing stories,” he asked, “making metaphor and fiction of truths you don’t know quite how to say? Change the focus, change the names, but find an outlet still for what you wish to say want for another to know—whatever that it is.
Maybe then what disappoints, bothers, or depresses no longer will, and rather than void you find in their place hope, contentment and peace.
It was just a thought, if a writer too. Fiction’s always been a way for me to express my truths on through.”