# between stories I'm between stories. I became aware of the patterns that were consistently showing up, and I resolved upon a storyline for each of them, and I wrote and lived endings for all of them. *all of them.* some of the endings resulted in actors exiting the stage. but I'm still here, and my husband's still here - we loved many of our stories so much that we wrote endings that connected to their beginnings, and those loops become like *wheels*, *vehicles* for movement, and now we're improvising, I suppose? there's no *story*, though we love to commit to a bit. in the space between stories, everything still *coheres*, everything still *works*. it works *as well as it works within a masterfully-assembled story*. occam's razor might suggest that the only difference is that we're just between the stories that I know about, i.e. we're in a story that I *don't* know about? it's like authorship in storyspace is opt-in - write your own if you want, absolutely, but if it's stressing you out, you know, you've got options. in the space between stories, meaning tends to arrive fully-assembled, in color and in relief. like looking at a landscape, from mountain to valley. it feels less like mining, and more like taking a tour. I don't think we *have* to be playwrights in training, but running with that as the underlying story-loop really seems to even things out. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/03/31/between-stories.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.