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The Story of One Day During the Pandemic in Cleveland, by Cleveland
So honored and humbled to have my storytelling selected by Literary Cleveland along with others. Link below, my section begins at 7:05am.
The Story of One Day During the Pandemic in Cleveland, by Cleveland
by Vince Grzegorek June 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM
Last month, Literary Cleveland invited everyone in the city to participate in a collective writing experience documenting what happened in greater Cleveland on May 12. The response was overwhelming: 140 people from all across the city submitted a combined 95,880 words and 346 photos. In other words, Clevelanders wrote the equivalent of a novel.
The following piece contains excerpts from select submissions collected into a single essay containing birthdays and weddings, herons and haircuts, Zoom classes and telemedicine and forgotten masks, plus a centipede named Cedric. Each individual joy, sorrow, frustration, love and loss combines to form a mosaic that speaks with more beauty and complexity than any one person could accomplish alone. Our hope is that the range and intimacy of experiences described here will provide a unique account of this historic time for those in the future as well as an opportunity to bring all of us closer together today.
After reading this essay, we encourage you to visit the chronological interactive map we created featuring all 140 submissions from this project. There you can explore everything that happened in Cleveland on May 12 by location, by time, or even by keyword. Please enjoy.
— Literary Cleveland