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Charlotte Dune's avatar

Permanoon, cell stories, and cigarettes, love it. So meta in the original meaning of the word.

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T Van Santāna's avatar

My very first short story, "Solitary Confinement," which I wrote in fifth grade, was also metafiction. Kind of my home style, I guess ;)

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Charlotte Dune's avatar

Love it.

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Jeff Zang's avatar

The writing is in your DNA, I get that. Nina Dee made me think of Kiki Dee, but I'm probably the only person you know who would make that association.

The blacked out portion is a long and very personal conversation with Karin about grief. Though we have never met physically (at least in this incarnation) it is a bond I feel with you, and treasure.

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T Van Santāna's avatar

I gotta level with you ... I had to look up Kiki Dee. I know "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," and I think that's it. I'll add her to my rotation, though, for sure.

That's an interesting thought. Maybe I'll write that scene. I know where it would be set, too. It's this restaurant that we always went to back on the Jung. Pretty sure there's a scene in Everything Fails set there, where I bump into Nassau. Maybe I moved that to another book ... I dunno. Shit's scattered all over everywhere right now. But I feel that bond, too, Jeff, and it's important to me, as well.

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Jeff Zang's avatar

https://youtu.be/16Y1-YqbMWM

This was her big US hit in 1974, but she was making records as early as 1963.

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T Van Santāna's avatar

I dig it. The title is reminiscent of the whole 'storied city in my cells' idea.

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