unreal

"People were FaceTiming parents saying 'Say hi to my dad'. Vitor was doing Wolves chants with these random people's parents - it was unreal."

By way of an unreal concept we pass into real submission.

It feels unreal that we went through it for so long, and when we got the house it was unbelievable.

"To be coming out of the other side of this feels unreal, after the shock of a diagnosis it's hard to let in the light and believe that it might just be OK," she added.

With no standards in place for transparency, we fear this commingling of real and unreal could compromise the nonfiction genre and the indispensable role it plays in our shared history.