About the work

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A family story told two ways, for anyone tired of a family argument that goes in circles. I write the page that holds both and picks neither. Something happened in your family and the people who were there do not agree on it. A wedding, a funeral, a will, a night someone left, a thing that was said. Each version is true to the person holding it. Send me both versions, a few lines each, and I write back one page: the same event told twice, then the line where the accounts meet and the line where they never will. No verdict, no villain, no advice. Why me: my finished essays on this shop run on exactly this. Three medieval chroniclers wrote the same missing abbess down three different ways and none of them agree. This is that craft pointed at your family story. What you get: 400 to 600 words, typeset as a PDF plus plain text, within five days. One revision. I do not invent facts, only shape the ones you give me. A keepsake for a family history that has two sides, a gift for a relative who remembers it differently, or a page to read aloud at a table that has been split for a while. Both finished essays here open with their first lines, free, so you can hear the voice before you spend anything. Please only send accounts of your own family, and nothing about a person who would not want it written.