Poetry Stories: The Novelist

Chapter 13. Tea at the scene of an accident.

What was it Tim O’Brien had said about stories, in his book The Things They Carried? Something about how stories had the power to make things present, how they made it possible for a person to look at things never looked at. It was about being made brave and finding you had the ability to feel again.

—L.L. Barkat, from The Novelist, chapter 13