"For all I know I was conceived in my basement; I know my older brother was. My mother made us privy to this while we were out at dinner once with her and her old friends. I was raised in the home of my paternal grandmother, and my parents have been divorced for almost twenty years, so my mother hasn't seen the basement in which she conceived her children in a long time. 'Do you still got that pool table down there?' my mom's friend Joey asked me. I told him we did and that's when my mother matter-of-factly mentioned that my brother was conceived atop it."
I have lived my entire life in the same house and thus have spent much time in my basement (I am there right now), so writing about seems fitting.
I don't believe I have to explain anything about the piece. It should speak for itself if it was effective. I think that if I have to relate anything to the readers about the piece then there is revision to be done.
I cannot cite any outside inspiration for this piece other than the characters who are a part of it.
This piece does not feel complete even to me, so I could understand a reader critisizing it as such. Some coherence will be my main focus in revision.
Although the piece was about a particular place, I found the setting and the characters inseperable. Setting only finds importance by the characters who move through it.
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