KB Online has nominated Maine Line with his post Ms. Thompson Wrote Me:
I suppose you can guess what she said. "Where have you been?" Mostly, like all women who don't hear from their men when they think they should, she thought I might be lying in a ditch somewhere, or in a alcohol-induced coma, or shacked up with somebody I shouldn't be, or run off with some floozy down to Portland, or dead. Well, I ain't none of them things, and I wrote back and told her so. Of course what she really wanted to know was why did I stop writing? Was I gonna quit the class? She really didn't want me to, she said, because I had a "authentic voice", whatever that means. Sam says it's good but I figure it probably just means I ain't pretending to be something I'm not. That don't make me "authentic", it makes me not a liar, which Sam says these days is practically the same thing, but I don't want to talk politics.