There’s something healing about story. Stories draw us in to draw us out. Story invites us to get lost, to fall under a spell, to leave our world and try out another. And then, like a nimble surgeon, Story delves inside of us and gently pokes around, opening up rooms we thought were locked, digging through drawers we forgot existed, holding out dormant hurts and dried-up desires and dusty memories if only to get us to acknowledge they exist. All kinds of revelations and difficult to swallow truths slip through the side door of story. But the real gems don’t leave us on the verge of narcissism. The best stories,…