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The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell is a story written by [[shukyou]]. It ran in [[Special Issue 5]] and can be found at [http://s2b2.livejournal.com/104770.html s2b2.livejournal.com/104770.html] and [http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/the-last-true-story-ill-ever-tell/ shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/the-last-true-story-ill-ever-tell/].

== Summary ==
Two young women take a road trip across the eastern half of I-10.

<BLOCKQUOTE>Reagan Henry's the kind of girl who doesn't like the word 'no'. So I agree to drive her to Florida and back.</BLOCKQUOTE>

== Related Links ==
This story has been [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20826973-the-last-true-story-i-ll-ever-tell added to GoodReads].

== Author's Notes ==
<BLOCKQUOTE>This story takes a large part of its initial inspiration from Sherman Alexie's [http://courses.csusm.edu/ltwr325bc/phoenix.html This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona], though the end product is obviously quite different (and nearly seven times longer). Apologies made for absurd claims about coroners in Florida. Science, however, confirms that <i>Graceland</i> can be listened to on repeat a theoretically infinite number of times.</BLOCKQUOTE>

(from the story page)

<BLOCKQUOTE>Ugh, nobody likes it when writers write about writing. So of course, I wrote a story about writing — or at least about how we narrate our own lives to make sense of them, even when they’re not as neat as fiction. I think (hope?) having a good narrator keeps it from being too insufferable. It’s probably objectively the best thing I’ve ever written for SSBB, but it’s an F/F story instead of an M/M story, so it gets a fraction of the recognition it would otherwise. It’s intensely personal, for all Dinah and I are completely unalike; the story starts and finishes in my hometown, and on the way it drives over some roads I know very well. And of course, Graceland is objectively the perfect road trip album, and I will hear nothing to the contrary.</BLOCKQUOTE>

(from [http://boysinourbooks.com/2014/02/06/guest-post-shukyou/ boysinourbooks.com/2014/02/06/guest-post-shukyou/])

== External Reviews ==
*http://scintilla10.dreamwidth.org/17535.html
*[http://shousetsubangbang.tumblr.com/post/28425378642/as-list-of-fics-to-read shadow-birds.tumblr.com]
*[https://www.pinboard.in/u:partofthewhole/b:7dc041d8bee1 pinboard.in]: "Lovely, painful, honest. Starts out as a road trip story but grows into so much more. Great writing, believable characters, and real emotions."


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