In a series of short stories , later collected in the books Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons , she presented a fictionalized version of her marriage and the experience of bringing up four children .
Eventually her four children would come to their own brand of literary characters as fictionalized versions of themselves in their mother 's short stories ; In a series of the short stories , later collected in the books Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons , she presented a fictionalized version of her marriage and the experience of raising four children .