nostr:npub1l0vdfdq98n2ts5dr6ehdsm5638uc2sl4v6znfwtmu9dvrvmwcqsq90uvrp >so that the first paragraph sets up reader expectations about what the story is about, and the last paragraph brings together whatever threads I have laid out in the course of the story and showed how they came together to suppose that.

The 'what it's about' is sometimes referred to as 'the premise' of the story, in contrast to an essay's 'theis', but the point is that there was *some reason* you wanted yo tell this story, and even if you want to be a little cryptic, you have to know what