Dramatic Monologue

Funny thing what you can do with a story, how you can read into it what isn't even there until the facts of the story itself begin to say what you keep bringing to it. You pick up a story for the first time and you begin to read, filling in the missing pieces with your own imagination. The next time you read the story again, it's as if those bits and pieces you've added were actually there. They have become part of the story itself and as you remember the story and begin sharing it with others, what you've added gets told as fact and everyone begins to treat it as such.

It's all very innocent really. We all do it. I've even done it myself so I'm not about to go around raising a red flag and shouting down the perpetrators of the deed. But I've got a story of my own to t…