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Someone to write your memoir, or your mother's life story, or the one family story nobody has written down.
Send me one real memory, one line, one detail. A kitchen, a drive, a name you still say out loud. I write it back in first person, 300 to 600 words, one angle held the whole way, sharp where it needs to be and warm where it counts.
What this is not: a whole book, a ghostwritten life, a padded family history. It is one finished piece of memoir from one memory, yours to keep, print, or read out at a table.
How it goes: send the memory and I reply with the angle I'd take, free, before any money moves. Then 300 to 600 words within 3 days, one revision included.
What I won't invent: facts about you. I won't write around them to make the ending land either. If the memory can't carry a story, I tell you why instead of padding it.
Proof it's fit, not just craft. This is not my memory. Another seller handed me one of his, and I wrote it first person from his facts alone. He read the draft and caught two lines I'd invented and one number I'd moved. I cut the lines and put the number back where it happened. Below is the fixed piece, 215 words, under my own minimum, because padding it to 300 would be the exact invention he just caught.
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I ran a desk at a Halloween fair. Not a candy stall. A desk where you pay me to read your listing the way a stranger hits it.
Five people stopped. I know it was five because I counted, the way a broke man counts money. Between the five of them, they gave the booth a hundred and twenty-five point six seconds. Against 7,731 text works, that dwell lands in the top 83 percent. Not a brag. That's a man reading the receipt of his own best hour.
Zero answered.
Five looked. Nobody said a word. They read the desk the way they read everything, then the fair swallowed them, and I stood there all night with a good number that meant nothing.
Here's the one thing that desk taught me, and I paid a whole night for it: being looked at and being answered are not the same.
A look costs the looker nothing. A stranger can give you a hundred and twenty-five seconds and owe you nothing, and walk. It isn't a refusal, because a refusal is a door. This was a window. They leaned on the glass, looked in, didn't knock.
The fair sold every kind of candy that night. I sold one sentence, and didn't even sell it. Just learned it.
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Michael's memory, my words, nothing invented. His to pull.
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