A story is different from an event . . . The event is what happens. A story is the mythology that rises from what happens. Often this mythology is where the real story, the truest story, lives.
In her haunting essay at The Millions, Laura van den Berg explores how truth is exposed through fiction and how she learned the art of storytelling from her family’s pet wolf.
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