It's now day, but when I [Miranda] started recording this episode, it was the middle of the night. I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. I found myself trying to remember the name of this short story by Alice Munro. Eventually, I got up and started googling, 'woman apartment alice munro' until I found it:

This is a story about a woman reflecting on past experiences of her ex-husband while she calls him out on other faux (or are they faux?) parts of his personality. Like most of her stories--the women are not so awesome themselves. Yet even in the ambiguous morality, what shines through is a clear P.O.V. from a single narrator, tinged with snippets of the lives of others. It is impossible to represent all perspectives at once.

It turns out that this story, with it's multiple takes on Dotty and the shitty apartment on Argyle, makes a lot of sense for an episode about counter narratives. If this is the non-writers musing on a writer's retelling of real events (of course, still a fiction written by a writer IRL), then we as readers could possibly wonder about Dotty's story, in addition to the narrator.

I hope you enjoy this shitty audio recording of a really great story or my screencapped hack of a pdf of Material itself. (Linked on http://humaneyepodcast.com/Episode-10-Counter-Narrative )