First the Foreword

Yes, it's true. This is a story.

I mean, it's a story in the sense that it has a beginning, a middle, and an end -- of sorts. It has people, things happen to those people, all the usual stuff you find in a story.

It's a story.

But it's also my life.

I'm going to try to tell the story as if I were outside of me. They call this "third person." It's kind of ironic, but I'll get to that. I'll try hard to write it as if I don't know everything I know, now that it's almost over. Why? Because reading the truth of something is not quite the same as discovering it, and I really want you to discover it. In fact, I think it's vital that you discover it.

So, here we go. We'll start at the beginning. And when was the beginning?

It was when I died.

The first time.




[©Steve Will, 2011]