Mirror, Mirror
The beginning draft of a new story. I don't know how long it will be yet. I've got most of another chapter after this one. I may write it in a diary format. Imagine the fright I got this morning: a slightly overweight, 48-year-old balding male, graying at the temples and at the corners of my beard, looking in the mirror and seeing ... well, no ... I still can't say it. It does too many strange things to my self image. I was wearing the blue velvet bathrobe that my wife bought me, and it brings out the blue in my hazel eyes, eyes that, though starting to dim with age, are still good enough to see myself in the mirror unaided.

Ideas
Note to self:1. Write a note to yourself.2. OK, that was easy. I want to write a new story. This is the real note-to-self. I have an idea about a story that involves an invisible friend. She isn't an ordinary invisible friend. She's someone who the protagonist meets when she is five years old. The invisible friend stays 5 while the protagonist ages. The IF is prescient, and can jump around in time (and space?) - past, present and future. She helps the protagonist through problems, personal issues, etc. Those I haven't decided on yet. She is wise, yet cynical - and is occasionally economical with the truth.The IF might be a sliver of the protagon