Just One Thing with Stephanie Meade Gresham

Stephanie Meade Gresham’s story “Ten Times Sadie” examines an emotional period in a mother-daughter relationship. Here, she shares just one thing about the piece: 

Headshot of Stephanie Gresham, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair wearing a brown sweater and glasses, smiling in front of a black door.

One thing about this little story is that it mostly really all happened when I was eight years old, way back in the 1980s. When my mom recently brought up the time I got stuck being a dog for a week, the details of that odd game and my “commitment to the bit” came flooding back. I knew I had to write about it. Of course, excavating memories can be dangerous, and I uncovered much more than a mom and kid playing fetch while writing about Sadie. Perhaps fiction is the safestplace (next to therapy) for exploring personal history. Woof.

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