the entertainer

I've noticed a trend here.  Granted the representative sample is relatively small, but I think it presents an interesting story.

It seems there is a inverse relationship with the length of an individual post to the number of comments made concerning it.  This is neither a request for additional input nor an indication that I write expecting feedback.  It is mostly an observation.

My ability at oratorical storytelling is not what I would like.  At times I entertain myself with the fantasy that I'm one of those people around whom others gather with intense interest, expecting to be enthralled by tales of piquant humor and endure moments of deadly suspense.  Sadly, in real life, I offer at best only a pale shade of those things.  I leave out important detail, meander back and forth through chronological sequence, and draw from a somewhat shallow well of experience.

Yet, once upon a time, I was paid for my services as a storyteller.  Ghost stories.  For a Halloween party.  Entertaining a group of ten-year-olds for two hours is a feather in my narrative cap I wear quite proudly.  It should make no difference that I manufactured not one story, and merely studied a few ghost story books I found in the library.

You should never give up on your fantasies, as it might in an unexpected way enter reality, if only briefly.