We know you have a story in you. We want to hear it.
We’re looking for submissions for our Postcard section. A Postcard is a short, evocative story about an event, person or place, written as if you were telling the story to a friend.
FiredUp: It’s a new year. Let’s edit our Dakota story.
The stories we tell ourselves are based in reality—but they are not reality. They are one interpretation of events, one way to look at what has happened to us and who we are. It’s not about “fact” versus “fiction”—facts themselves have little power over us. What shapes our lives are the stories we tell about those facts.