Where Have You Really Been, Where Are You Really Going?

Literary criticism, in fictional form, of a story by Joyce Carol Oates

This is the first of two parts of a short story that’s my version of a well-known story by Joyce Carol Oates. If you haven’t read my intro to this, explaining why I felt the need to write my own version of the story, please do read that, if you’d like to understand the elements I have included here that are missing from the original. Or, enjoy the story…