In the Year, by J. M. Cinq-Mars

I would never start off writing ‘in the year’ because I think it’s lazy and I was born lazy but my mind is active and I can think of better ways to start something, anything, though finishing is a whole other tale but everything’s a tale whether you want it to be or not, for instance, I could tell you about the year before it happened, that is the year I would start with, and somewhere in the first paragraph I would write ‘I was 18 years old when I wrote my brother’s obituary.’