A kind reader wrote to thank me for the
short story Smashed. I replied by giving the reader the true
source of the story. So here it is.
"Thanks
so much! The story happened to my sister. She went to her car in the grocery
lot and the steering wheel was bent down and the seat cushion twisted. She
never could figure out how it happened so I made up an explanation. She had to
get a repairman out and he repaired but like her, he couldn’t guess the
cause."
I must admit that most of my story ideas
grow out of things that happen to me and to my relatives and friends. Yes, I
add a lot of fiction.
