A reflection on the use of ‘story’ to tell the truth. 

My Grandmother used to say “are you telling me a story?”

meaning “are you telling me a lie?”

“Telling stories” has a bad press!

And yet there are true stories and there are stories that tell the truth

In a novel “Mourning Roby” by Helen Dunmore, Rebecca the young mother who has lost an only child is told, “sometimes the real story doesn’t tell you the truth.”

Anthony J Sargeant