Keith, not Harry
I, S. Harry Zade, am the creation of Keith R Wilson and he can kill me off whenever he wants.
Keith is a part time counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, and part time author. Unlike myself, Keith is neither morbidly obese nor suicidal, but he is a full time pain in the ass. He lives in a house with his wife and a garden, outside a city with a rotten core, but well enough outside to be in the good part of the apple. He values life as well as stories, but mostly stories about life.
The author, characters, and stories in The Narrative Imperative are all fictional and have only a passing acquaintance with characters, events, and his own life. No one real is going to die, other than eventually, anyway.
Keith says he prefers to write fiction so that he can tell the truth. You see there is a truth beyond what actually happens (which is all just a story, anyway). He swears to that.
Most of the time, he leaves me alone, but he does make an appearance in one chapter just to boss me around and get me totally confused about what is real and what is not.
Keith is also the author of Fate’s Janitors: Mopping Up Madness at a Mental Health Clinic. He wrote it before I was born.
Stella
January 5, 2011
Hi Harryl,
As a support staffer @ a local outpatient mental health facility, I appreciate your concern for your father on New Years Eve. Your compassion and rationilization would make you a perfect candidate for an opening @ our clinic…actually, many openings left be compitent and effective clinicians who left us for personal satisfication in their field, documenting their thoughts on subjects related to the field and adventurous romps accross our country with family members. This position guarantees exhuasting paper work, low pay and lack of communication, typical in a field rich with trained communicators.
Please apply, we need you!!
S. Harry Zade
January 5, 2011
I would apply, but unfortunately I am a fictional character.
Harry
Karl Stevens
March 30, 2011
Dear Keith,
I just discovered this site and I really like it. It looks beautiful, and the post entitled “Joy,” which I just read, was very moving. Thank you for creating it.
Sincerely,
Karl Stevens
3am Wisdom
August 4, 2011
Just discovered your blog and am now falling in love with it. Devouring each post with a sinking feeling that at some point I shall have read all the archives and have to wait impatiently for the next instalment. Do NOT stop writing, this is fantastic work.
Jo x
S. Harry Zade
August 4, 2011
Thanks, your comments spur me to ever greater achievements, especially coming from as fine a writer as yourself.
Harry and Keith
caddiemurray
September 20, 2011
Hey, Harry, thanks for the support you and Keith have given my blog, “Caddie Emerging.” It’s a lot of fun to interact with you here and there. Just noticed you’d put a link up to the blog in your sidebar … thanks so much! I have added a link to your blog on mine, as well, not just to be reciprocal and all that nice stuff, but because I really enjoy your blog and I honestly just hadn’t thought of it until now. I usually forget what’s over on my sidebar, anyway, but I hope it’ll bring you a few readers from time to time!
Anyway, thanks for the shout out, and many blessings on you and your writing!
Caddie Murray
(and Caddie’s creator, Stacy Aannestad)
S. Harry Zade
September 21, 2011
Thank you for thanking me and thank you yourself. We will see if this generates any traffic.
Harry and Keith
Christopher Marcus
January 2, 2012
Hi Keith (and Harry),
I really grateful I found your blog fiction (by way of Cadde Emerging, I should add) I do blog fiction myself over at shadeofthemorningsun.com, and I was looking for others to interact with. There are precious few, though, as far as I can see in my search results …
Anyway, I posted my first comment here as “Carrie” – my main protag; and she’ll probably continue to post here once in a while, since she is rather taken with your blog and your writing ability.
Me, I’ll just read and enjoy.
Best wishes,
Chris
P.S. Carrie also has a blog (or “blawg” as she calls it) over at shadeofthemorningsun.blogspot.com. I have put a link on her blogroll to your place there, since the other site is intended to be a sort of repository for short stories and flash fiction. And the blawg is, well … an experiment. What can I say … we’ll see how it all goes.
Crikes, your stuff is really good … Excuse me, I’ll have to read some more now … !
S. Harry Zade
January 3, 2012
Thanks Chris and Carrie. And welcome to my support network.
Harry
therealwadelazz
March 4, 2012
Great blog and what an excellent device to use a pretty snappy character as the blog’s author. Wish I’d thought of it myself. I’ll be back.
caroljforrester
April 21, 2012
Evening! Just popped by to say thank you for following my blog
It’s always wonderful when that little orange square lights up and I see that someone else has taken an intrest in my writing. I hope that you enjoy my work and I’m looking forward to reading some more of your own works.
Sunnee
May 24, 2012
Bravo! Finally– someone who understands there are clients and there are staff… And the sooner each realizes they could easily take the role of the other, the sooner… Whoa, better stop there before someone gets the idea we’re all human or something! Phew, You almost had me writing it out loud to the world there, you sneaky-sneaky…
Love your blog–keep it comin’. :0)
Sunnee Mourning
S. Harry Zade
May 25, 2012
Yes, Sunnee, before there were every clients and staff there were people. There still are people. Thanks for your support. Keep the faith.
Harry
Nata
December 6, 2012
I’d just like to leave a link to “How to Tell a True War Story” from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, which I think is relevant and compelling: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/readings/tob_true_war.html
beinquisitive
January 7, 2013
Hello again!
I have nominated your for the very inspiring blogger award. If you want to participate, have a look at the rules here http://beinquisitive.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/very-inspiring-blogger-award-thank-you-for-nominating-me/. Have a nice day and keep up with the good work!
S. Harry Zade
January 7, 2013
Me? Inspiring? Thank you for the honor. Being inspiring is an awesome responsibility because I can never be sure which of the things I say or do will inspire someone. I better be careful.
Harry