Genre Studies

I've never been very good at writing fiction. My long history as an accomplished liar doesn't suit me well in this received form. Maybe memoirists are the tellers of tall tales and novelists seek the truth through parallel universe narratives. Authors of stories that never happened live in other worlds while we here in the nonfiction section are testing out various versions of things we actually did. Or think we did. Or meant to do. As William Miller said in Almost Famous, "the truth just sounds different." The truth is a very large concept and I am only a girl with too many memories and not enough time. Or do I have too few recollections and a surplus of hours? The world may never know.