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Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past. Beck and Call. Tie-Dye Trees.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why Didn't the Speakers Use the Past Perfect Tens?
Use the present tense to make things more interesting, but don't use past tents to talk about the present. In real fake bridges ress's earlier conversation with someone for the magazine story was part of the orientation phase, not the complicating action. If goldstein and kestenbaum had used present perfect tenss, it would have made those events sound like part of the complicated action and confused the narrative.
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