I have taken down the short story that was published for a mere 18 hours online today. The visits were tripled today so I guess the story hit a spot! Thanks to those who commented on it this morning. I may make a book of made up family stories like Le petit marcel....it would be a good project and progressive, to get back into writing longer and longer stories. I could have one with an aunt visiting cuba and being attackek by a grasshoper at night in the dark (called esperanza in cuba). One recounting a made up death (apparentely it was a heart attack) of Grandma. One about the horse that belonged to mother as a teenager on the farm. One about the narrator's childhood nightmares, bad dreams literally, numerous as they were.  One about the narrator's conception on holiday with grandma and grandpa, who brought back an ashray that day to mother and father who had just embraced while grandparents were out. One about cooking frogs caught by narrator and her grandpa. Yup, I have a few memories and stories that were told to me that I can fictionalized and turn into short stories, a collection of short stories.