Dear friends,

Have you ever been hurt by a friend, relative, family member or total stranger here in Olympia and kept the pain to yourself and bottled it up?

Please join us at the Discussion Event for Chapter One of the "Keep It Real" Anthology.  Even if you can't  join us simply send in your stories or photos to my email address.

I am creating a non-fiction anthology which is a collection of stories of people who live in Olympia (Tumwater or Lacey) about people who 'unbottle the stories of pain caused by others'

There will be 10 sections of the antholohy, and each of ten chapters, will have an OPTIONAL 15 minute 'Keep It Real' Anthology Discussion Event (Location TBA):

#1. Stories of Friends who treat you like crap in Olympia - September 19th, 2007. 6pm

#2. Stories of Family who treat you like crap in Olympia
#3. Stories of Strangers who treat you like crap in Olympia

#4. Photos of Friends who treat you like crap in Olympia
#5. Photos of Family who treat you like crap in Olympia
#6. Photos of Strangers who treat you like crap in Olympia

#7. Stories of organizations and businesses who treat you like crap in Olympia
#8. Stories of local newspapers who ignore your suffering and/or treat you, your people and your community like crap in Olympia
#9. Stories of schools who treat you like crap in Olympia

#10.  Stories and photo of Anyone, anywhere else who treats you like crap.

There are only five guideliness:

#1. The stories must be 100% true and can be as long or as short as you lik and it is OK to use a 'made up' name.

#2. The stories must contain a few descripions of events or places in Olympia