title: Strange Happenings: Unusual Short Stories (Strange Happenings First Edition)
author:  PJ Renfroe 
description: PJ Renfroe, lives in Georgia, USA writing constantly until she escapes into the community of writers she encourages. I write to entertain myself, and insist on exciting copy. Characters in my books are alive and passionate, talented, charismatic, terrfying, sometime tormented but always interesting.
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  # <em class=
  
  
  "calibre2">Introduction: Watching and Writing_
  
  
  
  
  
  The stories in this collection were created by two people: The me who
  
  
  watches and the me who writes.
  
  
  
  
  
  Both of these creatures inside myself have lived under one sign, which has
  
  
  hung over my typewriter for seventy years: _Don’t think, do_.
  
  
  
  
  
  I haven’t thought about any of these stories; they are explosions or
  
  
  impulses. Sometimes they are big explosions of ideas that cannot be resisted,
  sometimes small
  
  
  impulses coaxed to grow.
  
  
  
  
  
  My favorite here is ‘Massinello Pietro’ because it happened to me many years
  
  
  ago, when I was in my early twenties and lived in and out of a tenement in
  downtown L.A.
  
  
  Massinello Pietro became a friend of mine whom I tried to protect from the
  police and help
  
  
  when he was brought into court. The short story that was
  
  
  inspired by this friendship is, in many ways, basically true and I simply had
  to write i