Author Archives: first person productions
How I Almost Became a Furry
By Sarah White What’s a furry? Someone who participates in a fandom subculture focused on anthropomorphic animal characters, with human personalities and characteristics, the Internet will tell you. The mainstream press tends to portray furries as sexual fetishists, but I … Continue reading
Desperately Seeking Stories
Okay, I’m not desperate, just having fun with a play on words about that rom-com with Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, “Desperately Seeking Susan.” The film premiered in 1985. It was Madonna’s first major screen role. It is one of my … Continue reading
10 Minutes to Death
By Marg Sumner A friend and I have a pact. At 10 minutes before dementia strikes, we’re each going to take two hits of fentanyl and ride off into the dawn, dusk, rainbow, whatever. There are two problems with this: … Continue reading
Dear Blue Creek Village
By Sarah White This was inspired by a prompt: “Write an apology to a place.” Try it and see what comes to you! Dear Blue Creek Village, I’m sorry I haven’t been back to see you. It has been almost … Continue reading
The Small Thing That Mattered Big
By Marlene Samuels “She wants a photo of the two of you together.” Richard, our adoption counselor tells us. Concern is spreading across his already serious-looking face. “It’s the one thing of true importance still missing from your file.” My … Continue reading
The Blue Bicycle: Travels with an Adopted Air Force Girl (Part 3 of 3)
By Mary Ellen Gambutti Click here to read the first two posts in this three-part story. Tokyo, June 1961-1964 Mom, Dad, two-year-old Julie, and I have flown to Japan in a Pan American jet to begin the three-year tour in an … Continue reading
The Blue Bicycle: Travels with an Adopted Air Force Girl (Part 2 of 3)
By Mary Ellen Gambutti Click here to read the first post in this three-part story. Louisiana, summer, 1958, continued Mom tells me Dad’s work is hard when I ask her about the migraines that have become frequent. He shows me his … Continue reading
The Blue Bicycle: Travels with an Adopted Air Force Girl (Part 1 of 3)
By Mary Ellen Gambutti Texas, September 1957 In the bicycle department at Sears Roebuck in Victoria, Dad points out a blue 26-inch J.C. Higgins cruiser he’d seen in the catalog. “Here’s the one we’ll get. What do you think?” Wouldn’t … Continue reading
Big news regarding “First ___day, First Person”, my salon for memoir writers
You may wonder where the stories you read on “True Stories, Well Told,” come from. The answer is–many of them, I hear read by fellow reminiscence writers, at the monthly salon I offer. “First Monday, First Person” has been an … Continue reading
Passport #6: Edrisi 2006
By Marg Sumner Edrisi and I had a relationship that was going nowhere, except into the Sahara Desert, which is not too far from nowhere. I didn’t care for him from the get-go, and he was indifferent to me. He … Continue reading
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