a retelling, the abridged condensed, shortened, can you truncate the things that have not ended or strip it of it's beginning--can you choose between one or the other?
the novels exist in our backgrounds, in the attics we wrote and wrote to say we did but only to store them away when we found we could not erase people the way we hoped--
I have learned that there is no getting rid or escaping a place, not unless you have fully healed, and it's not enough just to say you have, to be able to go and be, do and feel without the tangled strings of your past curling behind you--