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The fourth wall is the conceptual barrier between any fictional work and readers. Write a piece that breaks the fourth wall with a character who is aware of being fictional, and directly communicates to the reader. [Photo by Jessica Belliveau, YWP archive]
Hello, my friend, I would love to tell you a story of how we got here. So, all my life I thought I was real. I would wake up, say hello to my bird, brush my teeth, and go to work. I worked in a department store my whole life.
EZRA– Ezra lay sprawled, with his head almost touching the ground, on one of the beanbags that lined one corner of the tightly backed bookshop, searching, upside down, for his favorite book.