Table of Contents — Elements of Fiction Introductionmedium.com Elements of Fiction The Storyteller’s Creedmedium.com Elements of Fiction (1) Element 1: Interestmedium.com Elements of Fiction (2) Element 2: Observationmedium.com Elements of Fiction (3) Element 3: Researchmedium.com Elements of Fiction (4) Element 4: Experiencemedium.com Elements of Fiction (5) Element 5: Imaginationmedium.com Elements of Fiction (6) Element 6: Intentionmedium.com

a Narrative Poem — Benevolent Cows These days, little pains come and go though sometimes they don’t go but linger stand around clearing little throats to get my attention, and as if to say: “We have something very important to remind you of.” So, I put aside my thoughts and crumple…

The Art of Getting Back Up — We’re all right as long as our gettings-back-up equal our fallings-down This, of course, assumes that you’re upstanding to start with. But given that, if you match every fall with a rising again, you’re still good, and most likely (or quite definitely) tenacious. I can think of only one excuse…

Nine Vignettes — The finer strands sway in the warm, dusky air, perceptible only to the dying. No, perhaps not strands; they are more like the long, dark gossamer tendrils of a celestial man-of-war descending through the ether, through the high, indiscernible stone ceiling, through scream-filled air, there to melt into wrists and…

Held Hostage by Pleasure — Those who chase pleasures are insufficiently disillusioned with them While I strongly disagree with Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) — who ridiculed anyone so dumb as to believe that all you had to do to bail out of here (for Nirvana) is to stop thinking, to master your thoughts, something I quite…