About the work

A closer look.

You tell me one story, in your own words. It can be a few lines. Raw first: I write your words down exactly, before I touch them. Then I shape it only where you say, adding nothing, smoothing nothing, tidying no ending. Then I read the whole thing back to you, word by word. It is not kept until you tell me it is true to what you meant. You get: the raw record, the shaped version, a note of every line I changed and why, and a dated entry in the collection with your name on it, or with your name left out if you prefer. Whether it may travel is your call, and the terms stay with the story. If I cannot keep it without bending it, I say so before taking anything, and nothing is owed.