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Setting: Argentina

8/27/2015

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Setting is important in my fiction.  An interesting location often inspires me to set a story there--for example, a date farm in Indio, an untraveled alley in Venice, or the wave organ in San Francisco. 

Recently, I traveled to Argentina.  I visited Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and San Juan.  I took notes on many intriguing locations:  Recoleta Cemetery, a cattle estancia in a deluge, the empty plains at the feet of the Andes.  One of the most interesting locations for me, though, was a park in San Juan on a sunny holiday afternoon, where kids rode their bicycles and a brass band played in the distance.  I started imagining the people who lived there, who called their kids off when they tried dangerous climbs on war memorials, who ate helato next to a cement-lined lagoon. 

Will I ever publish  a story set in any of these places? Who knows?  But I definitely have some ideas churning. 
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Roberta Kanefsky
8/28/2015 01:49:29 am

And facebook pictures probe our piety,pass on our glee, garner our outrage
Outsize our sympathies, surprise us into comradery, and cull a feeling of home, honed from an insight, an instant of recognition: rebels are us all.

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    Ann Hillesland writes fiction and essays. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Fourth Genre, Bayou, The Laurel Review, and Sou’wester.

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