TRUTHINESS
Before I was rudely interrupted by a plague, I had promised to reveal whether some of the following actually happened to me and appeared in my fiction. To recap, in abbreviated form: The Poison Pen : A man is outraged because the poison-pen letter his wife receives doesn’t accuse him of fooling around (as other husbands on the block were) but instead criticizes his yard work. The Log that Wasn’t : A fisherman in Cuba almost steps on a huge barracuda he assumed was a floating log. Religious Experience : A full-service bar below a church sacristy was once a speakeasy and is now used for Rosary and Altar Society meetings. A Head for News : A young reporter with a hangover looks in the back seat of a car and sees the head of its decapitated driver. Well, all these instances happened to me, but only the first three made it into books. Of course, the last incident will eventually make it in, too! In case you are wondering, the Cuba incident occurred at Guantanamo Bay when I was