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The Novelist Preview—from chapter 1…
THE END.
She typed finality across the center of the page and closed the laptop with a snap.
What would it be this morning? She turned to her tea cabinet and opened it quietly. Maybe a green jasmine. She could tweet about it later and make Megan smile. Megan would have tweeted something about a new Earl Grey, and they would share fantasies about each other’s kitchens and tea cups. Or did Megan use a mug?
This would explain it. Why she typed, “The End.” This lack of attention to detail. Shouldn’t she know by now what Megan took her tea in? Hadn’t she read a few hundred tweets or more, about English Breakfasts and new green blends, a white tea for afternoon, and a cataloging of how many cups Megan had drunk by 9 pm? She had. Over and again, she had.
But she could not recall Megan’s imbibing-receptacle-of-choice. A novelist would remember these things. She would even be willing to research about tea, wouldn’t she? To create a believable character based on Megan? An authentic character who knew her basic pekoes from her golden tippys?
Novelists were like that. The real ones, anyway…
The Novelist: All the Chapters
Chapter 2. Someone’s Life Should Be at Stake
Chapter 3. Come, Tangle Yourself In Me
Chapter 4. The Mere Thought Made Her Heart Beat Faster
Chapter 5. I Prefer My Little Basho
Chapter 6. For the Universe Knew, It Knew
Chapter 7. You Couldn’t Say No
Chapter 8. As If Testing Their Best Existential Condition
Chapter 9. Did You Know (How Could You?)
Chapter 10. What Made a Story Endure?
Chapter 11: If a Dream was Planted
Chapter 12: The Power of Narration
Chapter 13: Tea at the Scene of an Accident
Chapter 14: The Poem Held Its Share of Courage
Chapter 15: It Was a Fine Line
Chapter 16: A Writer is Always Writing for Someone
Chapter 17: Poets Knew All the Tricks of Animation
Chapter 18: You Are Very Brave
Chapter 19: Such a Dangerous Gamble
Chapter 20: Kind of a Personal Question
Chapter 21: I Dreamed You Were a Poem
Chapter 22: Sometimes You Had to Push Through
Chapter 23: To Make a Story Thrive
Chapter 24: When You Should Walk Away
Chapter 25: A Terrible Powerful Thing
Chapter 26: The Language in Secret
Chapter 27: A Secret Worth Waking For
Chapter 28: Geography that Only Pretended
Chapter 29: Wedding Imperial Tea
Chapter 30: It Was Yours and Yours Alone
The end.
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