13. “I AM NOT A BAD MAN”
Two weeks passed (we’re back in our back-story) before I saw Ashley again.
Meanwhile I put the final touches on the latest version of my novel. For this version, in addition to changes previously mentioned, I reinforced the narrator’s unreliability. All unreliable narratives are first-person, and all first-person narrators are, to some extent at least, unreliable — though that doesn’t make them unreliable narrators. This is as true for nonfiction as for fiction.
Take this back-story apropos my fall from grace. While it’s true that the narrator’s (my) situation may not have been ideal, that we may not envy him his unpublished novel or his enlarged prostate, his circumstances were far from dire. He had a job. He wasn’t starving or dying of cancer or living in a wa
