The Importance of a Good Story

"I knew what art was for. I just didn't think it was the kind of thing you said out loud," he writes. "Art is not here to give lessons." Addie offered him a deal: She would write a story in which people just talked if she wrote one in which something happened. He says yes, but only because his conviction existed only when left alone in the dark and disappeared the second someone asked for it to come out.