My Brother Wrote a Short Story About Me
Is this a short story or a long-form roast? We shall see. Presenting: Mommyland
Lots of writers spend countless hours trying to get even just ten people to read their work. My brother, who has a day job he enjoys and zero dreams of becoming a professional writer, got pretty lucky: his writing debut will be going out to thousands of people and he didn’t have to kiss any asses or even “work his network.” All he had to do was occasionally text me back. Nepo baby alert!
Anyway, what follows is a short story my brother wrote, inspired by, and I quote “the fact that you vacation on Looney Island every few weeks.” He’s correct that I have pretty bad OCD, and as one of my top confidantes, my OCD is exhausting for him. So this short story is basically a way for him to vent about how annoying I am. When I first read it, I did not infer that it was about me and I said, “That poor woman.”
Although this story is clearly inspired by me, it’s not a 100% accurate, biographical story, and most of the things in this story are inspired by things I’ve done or said, but not things I’ve actually done. So please, no, “Did you really do that?” No, I didn’t.
Now, the last question you’re going to ask: “Why would you paywall your brother’s short story? I don’t give a shit who your brother is! Why would I pay for that?” The answer is simply because I’m not sure I want everyone on Twitter having this much of a peek into my mental illness. Self-preservation paywall only, folks.
Without further ado, this is my brother’s short story, Mommyland:
