Monthly Archives: August 2010

Reality vs. Fiction: Of Drug lords and shoot-outs 0

There are people who read my fiction and immediately identify themselves, or a moment, or a place or a person. My stories are fiction, but they are often placed in real locations, down to specific moments in time.  These moments aren’t borrowed from newspaper accounts, but they could very well be. Last week, I read [...]

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There is a scene in “The Devil Wears Prada” where our heroine, Andy–highly educated, competent, intellectual, beautiful noble and polite–gets reduced to an incoherent bundle of nerves by her boss from hell, Miranda, who, in the midst of a hurricane in Miami, demands that Andy somehow find a way to fly her to New York. [...]