>>5969471>THE MONOMYTHYou could try adapting some surrealist or modernist storytelling techniques. Also read poetry, I find poetry often helps create lyrical mysteries and riddle-stories. If you don't like poetry some song lyrics can also achieve this effect (a lot songs tell stories through omission or mysterious lack of explanation as to the background events, context). How would you write a story like a Cubist painting? Fragmented perspectives, shifting / cut-up narratives etc. End the story one narrative step before what is conventionally expected. Usually I find life is actually like this, there is an absence or what (shudder argh nooo) some American psychotherapists call closure argh nooo. Art is about maximising the interpretative space, hehe. So imagine if you are telling a story, and before you reach the satisfying culmination or conclusion or resolution denouement that explains and reveals everything, you just
