Though some names have been changed, all the stories are real. In most stories names are irrelevant anyway, I reckon. Like a face in a photo, they draw attention away from the context, the bigger issues. If anybody should read these stories, and enjoy the form they take, I would suggest the work of Uruguayan journalist, Eduardo Galeano, as an inspiring precedent for genre defying writing.
No face needed.
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once again i find myself impressed with your work, ben.
there is a stillness in the way you write , in fact it is like the stillness required of a camera. just as a camera doesn't edit the light in its lens, your writing allows what is there to travel through to the page. it is that stillness that is your great gift, ben, unless i be mistaken.
i have just signed in to google as a user.... i hope this gets to you... please let me know, if you will.
ann sends her warm wishes to all ... as do i.
lawrie emailed me that the website will be up today or tomorrow...
.... www.rickball.com.au
i will now see the rest of this site of yours... love, dad .
Interesting to know.
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