Story Samples
Story samples (fictional)
Five Questions, Five People, Five Different Answers
Walter Nowak
A Working Life – Hamtramck, Michigan, 1940
Thirty-four years on the line at Dodge Main. What his father never actually told him about the job.
Peggy Whitfield
A Courtship – Stockport, 1938
Married in 1959, to a man who walked her to the bus every Friday for eleven weeks before he said why.
Beverley Clarke
A Childhood in Another Country – Jamaica to Birmingham, 1944
The taste she’s spent sixty years trying to get back, and the first winter that nearly ended it.
Rafael Villalobos
Two Languages, a Grandson Asking – Guatemala to Houston, 1948
What he told his grandson that nobody else in the family knows. Why? Because it was Marcus who asked.
Joan Petrie
What If Someone Doesn’t Want to Answer – Coventry, 1936
She said no to the hardest question, and meant it. What she offered instead, forty minutes later.
Tell Me Again
You choose the questions. We help with the asking.