the way none of this happened

...To look for stories the way we look for rain - out the window, in puddles, signs of movement, contact. A torrent of situations, cascading into heaps of paper, boxes situations...The Way None of This Happened...120 or so prose entries from 40 years of writing...Out there in the nowhere...The sound of traffic or water moving through a pipe, some image of the rest of the world passing by...As these known worlds become apparent, the manual suggests looking for similarities...Overseen, as in overheard...After all, as someone once said, this is just writing.