Goodreads asked Sidney Thompson:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Sidney Thompson The first one that comes to mind is the plot for a book, or for a story in a book. I wrote the story "The Voyeur" (in my collection Sideshow) to relive and examine the mystery of why my parents decided to get a divorce. Sometimes we can't ever know what happens behind closed doors until our parents separate, and then, isolated, they begin to reveal themselves to us. My book of poetry, You/Wee: Poems from a Father, is also a plot from my own life, based on the mystery of life and all the sub-mysteries it contains, that a pregnant wife and growing baby in essence create by their very evolving, sensational, profound nature. And my autistic son Owen in part inspired the plot of Kudzu's Enormous New Life; what he perceived and how he communicated his thoughts, needs, and questions early in his life led to a plethora of mysteries, until his mother and I learned to accommodate to his method of communication, instead of expecting him to accommodate to ours.

flag