A recent reader of Moment Magnitude - and I cannot remember who - told me she (I believe it was a she) thought the stories here are fiction.
So, I feel the urge for a quick explanation. The stories here are not fiction, unless I embed a fictional "what if" or equivalent in the middle of an otherwise based-on-a-true-account. These stories are my interpretation of actual events and escapades. I would love to state with veracity that, "No, it's all true," that simple, straightforward line from one of my all-time favorite films (and the book before it), but it's not, quite.
I decided at the outset to create nicknames for the recurrent characters - as a way to protect the innocent, or more likely, the guilty, the lion hearts, the reprobates, most of whom I adore, one or two whom I don't. I'm pretty straightforward in distinguishing between the adored and the loathed.
Tough noogies, as Sister Lucide might have said, as she ground her knuckles into Patrick Rizzo's or Tommy Iburg's skull. Noogies.
A clever, discerning reader, who doesn't know us otherwise, can probably connect the dots between the monikers and the photos that are included here. (Yep: that photo has to be of Surfer Girl.)
We're real.
Oh, and just how true these stories are! Being on the "inside" of some of the stories or being on the side but looking in, I attest the stories are real. We share (us girls) and intimately so, our details most times. So if we weren't there to corraborate a story, we were there to witness the after affects. All true.
Posted by: Hot Momma | Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 08:02 PM
As Jack Nicholson so classicly stated:
"I've always told you some version of the truth".
Posted by: judy bucklen | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 12:18 PM
HH, you have said what really needed to be said.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU ALL
... rich descriptions are imcomprable to how enriching it is to have everysingle one of you be part of my life...
Posted by: WD | Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 07:14 PM
Perhaps it was an attempt at paying a compliment, but if so, the compliment is paid to us all - for having the kinds of lives that lend themselves to rich description.
Posted by: HH | Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Didn't occur to me that your stories could be anything other than true. There are some mighty suspicious folk out there.
It always surprises me how much I love THAT movie (and book.. well books really). Just seeing the quote "It might be true" is enough to push me into reverie. I was recently about to leave my apartment and flicked the teev onto movie channel to tape something whilst I was out. Even before I could pull my eyes away from the remote, the words "why are you people so threatened by a woman" had my handbag flung on the floor and me perched on my coffee table, unable to tear myself away, for the next two and a half hours.
Posted by: Kim | Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 10:11 AM
HOW DARE "THAT PERSON" QUESTION THE VERACITY OF OUR STORIES!?
IT COULDN'T BE ANY BETTER IF IT WASN'T TRUE!!!
PFFFF!
Posted by: LIZ JR | Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 01:58 AM