Xtreme Brain Activity.
Xtreme temporal and spatial dislocations
in creative nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction defined: fiction that pretends to be a true story.
Creative metanonfiction: fiction that calls attention to the fact that it is pretending to be a true story.
For the sake an engaging story arc of the story, My bipolar daughter and I (and sometimes my wife) made three simultaneous visits to the psychiatric ER. The most dramatic thing event that triggered a visit was when my daughter, zig zagging through traffic, ran away from wife when she was picking her up from school while I was at work. This chapter in the story starts with that event, except I am also there and chasing after my daughter, hauling her off some playground equipment, causing us both to fall to the ground, as was the case when I once picked her up from school. My daughter kicks a police officer before she is transported to the psychiatric ER.
At the ER we meet a man with no face, well mostly no face. His nose and mouth are fused into one face hole. He needs a change from winter clothing to a wardrobe that is more suitable for this composite visit to the ER. My wife appears and disappears, depending on how I've entwined the segments of the three different visits. My daughter is tied in cloth restraints (first visit) while I have a heated discussion with a doctor over admitting her to a weeklong inpatient psychiatric hospitalization (third visit). She gets admitted (second visit).
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