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For readers of "In the Cold"


Yes, it was real event. Yes, I am like that in real life.

 

I wanted to write reality and just show you guys a piece of my life and piece of who I am with a recent experience. As some of you know, my tenant is an ex-Catholic priest, who had been convicted of child abuse during the early 2000's. I discovered that fact more than a year ago and you can even find that detail in my old postings, if you find that too incredible to believe. He is a registered sex offender of the highest grade, but to everyone who doesn't look on the sex offender registry, he is a decent guy. He paid his debt to society with several years in Prison already.

 

I am not a hero in any sense of the word, nor am I a crusader. I did not want him to be harmed out of kindness and my own personal sense of honor. Maybe, I am wrong to hold such beliefs in honor and integrity on personal level based on the facts, but I just can't allow it.

 

As for my characterization, I am weird analytical guy in real life. Q, Cassie, and Intune are probably the only people on GA, who have met me. Only Cassie has actually spent time with me long enough to get a few glimpses at that part of me. I am nice and honest person in real life, but I am also very direct.

 

I know I am very imperfect in the way I act. If the guy had been more pissed off with me after revealing his own inner most thoughts and desires rather than being scared and shocked at me, I'd probably be in the hospital rather than writing this story in the best scenario. I was overreaching and I knew it. Part of me just wanted to keep him talking and maybe throw him off his quest. I don't know what I was doing exactly, but I know my purpose was to minimize the harm as much as I could to myself and the old man.

 

Just wanted to add some detail...

 

In the Cold

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I read this, and went and read your anthology. As I said in my comment, you hit a homerun.  I was enthralled with your story. It was so real and easy to believe as a life experience. Great Job WL. You need to write more like it.

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