One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2009 Anthology

Book excerpt: Welcome to the inaugural volume of the One Million Stories Creative Writing Project. Here begins a journey into the recorded dreamings, imaginings, obsessions, attitudes, celebrations, preoccupations, journeys and reminiscences of people from all over the English-speaking world. It is a celebration of the short story form. It is a festival of the tremendous diversity of people and the stories that they have to tell. Around the world more than a million stories are being told right now. It is how we describe ourselves in the world. It is how we express what we are experiencing to our fellow travellers on this path. “You won’t believe what I saw on my way here today!†“Do you remember when we used to do this or that, or go there?†Okay, so not all of us travel the same way, but experience leaves marks and makes maps. Some of those maps, slightly more than twenty of the best of them, are right here.