I learned from mother recently that after Grandma passed, he lived a few months alone with friends bringing food and then moved to his sister in law's house, with her husband she was already taking care of. I have a vivid and clear memory of talking wiht Grandpa in hospital on his last days but I dont know if this is accurate. I cant recall if he truly died in hospital or at his inlaw's? 

I am bit tired of all this focus on death in the last two days because of my writing. Death can be a bit touchy and heavy to write about. I find My Grandma and I on Anzac day lacks humph. The english is too rudimentary. The descriptions are not very good I seem to think. Is it ok to talk of 'a spasm of life happening' as Josephine has a heart attack? Or is it just too vivid? 

I much prefered Le petit marcel  because it is more clearly a fiction. I want to ask my mother to tell me about her horse grandpa bought her for a few years on the farm when she was a teen. I am sure with a bit of details, I can fictionalized something neat with that story. There is also the frog eating contest with Grandpa (with dad in real life, but in the book, dad dies when the narrator , me, is  4).  

This collected short stories book I am working on maybe is a work of fiction first and foremost. I dont feel like writing an autobiography. It may depressed me too much. I am so pleased with the mix of fiction and truth in Le petit marcel.