Memoir – Chapter 5 – Every Letter Tells a Bigger Story

I explained to Zaps the purpose of my many-pronged plan: to discredit my ex-family as members of the human race and expose them as members of their true race—rodentia. They were slopping up the world in general—America in particular—and me specifically. But first I had to explain a little about myself. It went more or … Read more

Memoir – Chapter 3 – An Etymological and Psychological Predicament

Before I recount the Stockholm Syndrome situation, I have to shift into reverse chronologically in my story line. That’s the liberating quality about writing a memoir. You can write it any way you want. There’s no standard format. No MFA-approved guidelines. No how-to-get-it-published hard and fast rules. You can jump around time-wise and subject-wise willy … Read more

Memoir – Chapter 1 – A Strange Question

Prologue: My name is Twonkette McGillicuddy. I’m telling my story. I don’t need an alias. I’m telling the truth. I can be rebellious. Had to be. On account of the way I was born—a white middle child, in a middle class home, in the middle of suburbia, in the middle of the 1960s. But wait, … Read more