Remember how I mentioned my muse leaving me a pile of half-completed stories while I was trying to finish Band Geek Diary? Well, today I'm posting one of them she deigned to let me finish: a story called "Cara" which should be up soon. The story is loosely based on real events. An old girlfriend had, indeed, checked out my LinkedIn profile, and it set off some memories. The memories it set off weren't the ones I ended up writing about, though. I wrote about someone else because my memories of her are sweeter. The one who actually looked me up was a bitch.
Honestly.
She. Was. A. Bitch.
I based the character, Faith, in my story "Faith and Hope" on her, including the way she acted, how she bit me and how I slapped her for it. All of that actually happened, so I wonder why that particular old girlfriend bothered to look at my profile after being out of my life for over 45 years. Who knows? I never claimed to understand her back then, either.
The other, sweeter, memories I wrote about? Read the story. The "real" real story happened differently, of course, but she was a wonderful woman with a shitty husband and I wrote the story while thinking of her. I miss her to this day, and I sometimes sneak a look at her Facebook page just to check up on her. She seems to be having a great life now and I'm happy for her.