#pennedpossibilities 240 -- idea for WIP
#HiramFalls had 2 origins: In 1999 I found a diary of a young woman that began: "January 1, 1894, 4 degrees, cloudy. Today was the day for Uncle Lyman's and my trial but it was again postponed. Oh dear me, how can I bear it all." She never returned to that idea. Bleakest shit I'd ever read.
In 2017 I got a commission to write stories for stage. I fictionalized the diary. https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/p/sketch-carrie-1918 In subsequent years, the novel's characters were born...
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