when a person reads a story, where black ink on a white page disappears and generates an image in the reader’s head. The story plays out and the characters engage. What the reader sees, hears, smells, and feels composes an experience only they could have had, a story unique to them, shaped and informed by who they are. Whether the reader knows it or not, the story itself is shaped by them as it shapes them.

This is a moment I want to create for my readers more than anything. If you read this far, I have achieved it just this once, but only in this short paragraph.

If you click the button below, I can have another chance at it.