“Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen”

“Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.”

“We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.”

“Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.”

“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).”

“Life is to be lived for an audience of One.”