FICTIONAL SAMPLE — ALL PEOPLE AND RECORDS INVENTED

My Mother’s Story

The photograph showed Iris beside a bicycle, years before her children were born. Her daughter had always associated her with the kitchen table; the bicycle introduced another frame. A dated training certificate supported a period of work away from home. Iris remembered the freedom of the journey more clearly than the job itself. The portrait allows both the young woman and the mother to occupy the page, without making one merely a preface to the other.