Story #3: 1-3 page dramatic monologue.

Story #3: 1-3 page dramatic monologue. Like Ron Carlson’s story “Bigfoot Stole My Wife,”Jamaica Kincaid’s story “Girl”(also in handouts) and David Foster Wallace’s, “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” are dramatic monologues. All 3 stories center on unreliable narrators, through whose eyes we see the fictional world. They are talking to us, but what we hear is not necessarily what they say, because we don’t fully trust them. Write a story with a very strong voice, based on a character who is not you. The story should consist entirely or almost entirely of this voice speaking, not of traditional omniscient narration. As in a lyric poem, we the reader overhear the person speaking. One question you might ask is, what relation, if any, does the listener have to the speaker? Are we as listeners also characters in the story, and if so, what is our role?