Top tier storytelling device. Part of my love of If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. Don't just read the story out to me, have the narrator/ character reinterpret and condense the story before delivering it to me. Show me how they would tell me what the story is about. 👉👉
Story-within-a-story is a favorite trope of mine. Here's an example of Winnie, the necrologist, reading a spine-chiller about a mummy.

Unedited snippet from Untethered 🧟‍♀️🖤👩🏻

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