The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem

Author:Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem [Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fiction, Psychological Horror, Surrealism
ISBN: 9780786948581
Google: PD7QXwUUaAAC
Goodreads: 1537678
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 2008-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Telling Tales

When I was a boy I had no way to tell my stories, or at least no audience I judged as safe. But I told them anyway. I lied. I learned to make stuff up. I had always been a storyteller with an audience of one, telling myself tales as far back as I could remember. I used them to explain myself to myself. I used them to find my way through a world I could not even begin to understand. I used them to describe the mysteries around me. I used them to create a future for myself, when I did not really believe I had a future.

Having children someday did not figure into any of these tales. Here my much-vaunted imagination met its match. I could not imagine myself in any real relationship, much less a relationship with children. I’d have been thrilled to foresee that one day I would use Story to explain the world to my own children, but it was not an idea I could entertain at the time.

Instead I made up stories about why I was who I did not want to be:

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