Sunday Stories: “The Storyteller as Mentor”

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The Storyteller as Mentor
(September 2002 to January 2003, Northern Ireland)
by Timothy DeLizza

In the fall after I graduated college, I flew from Brooklyn to Northern Ireland to apprentice under an established Irish storyteller who I’ll call Martha. After paying for my plane ticket, I had something like $1,000 in my bank account—and while Martha had agreed to cover room and board, the apprenticeship was not going to increase that number.

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VCO: Chapter 11

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Chapter 11

I wake up on the floor of Everhet’s kitchen and instantly bring my phone over my face. 

I dreamt that I text Morgen a Homeric epic about how my parents were dead. How they exploded. 

I look at my texts. Wasn’t a dream. Initiate shame blocking sequence.

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