Once Upon a Time

Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - O

When family members tell a story, rarely is a place named and rarely is the story pinned to a time.

Instead it is unhooked from the obvious markers but nonetheless there is enough detail that we have the context.

I was not conscious of this until 2024. Night after night around the fire, unwinding the tension until I could properly listen.

Perhaps this partly explains the styling of the stories that I write.

The other aspect is I prefer stories that allow for interpretation and sometimes this can be achieved by the sense of once upon a time.

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