While we often agree that truth is stranger than fiction, I suggest that fiction is often truer than fact.
When we present stories as history or as events, we are constrained by proof and records. However, when we present the same the stories as fiction we are free to delve into motivations, backgrounds, feelings and more.
In writing fiction, we are expansive, honest and more completely truthful. Thus I ask readers not to discount the value of fiction that can state the known and explore the unknown.
