Someone dear to you, perhaps a family member, friend or colleague, has had a milestone, be it a birthday, a promotion or simply has done something nice.   Now you can give them a gift they will cherish for decades when you walk up to them, ask “Did you see the paper today?” and hand them a front-page article about them.

After speaking with you about your loved one, I, Michael Krikorian, a veteran Los Angeles journalist, will craft a fictional story inspired by their life and spirit. My goal is to create a piece that, as my former editor at the Los Angeles Times, Bob Baker, used to say, will “make them laugh, make them cry.”

The final work will not be titled something generic like “The Fictional Tribune.” Instead, it will be named after a place or theme that best captures their essence—be it Los Angeles, Chicago, Cucamonga, or Timbuktu.