Unbecoming Darrell Matthews

Well the only thing that I am thankful for in GA's winter upset is finding your story!

I greatly appreciate how you tell a story.... allowing the angst to remain instead of tidy endings which life rarely is about has made me looking forward to the next chapters.

Thanks!

Hi Dion

Just finished the story - was pretty hard to read - very emotional and moving - but well written. Thank you. Can you send us an update when you plan to finish this story or do an update? take care

Part of a sries = you teasing git!

Seriously! Unsentimental, passionate, compassionate, tricky, human, frightening (Nelson), realistic.

There are a lot of good writers on here, but few who are very good. You are definitely one of the few. Your writing style is extremely lucid, and wonderfully conversational. If it was darker, it would be noirish, but you avoid that melodrama as well as you avoid the saccharine. It's like lemon tea with sugar.

I loved Darrell. I loved Trent too. I loved the way you handled that descent into the abyss of despair. Even the suicide (or was it?) attempt was completely flawed in its rationale. Extremely realistic. The beating scene was a proper losing of focus, going from anger to rage to fury to loss of control to ... well, to insanity (though I'm not sure I quite believed that bit). The final fizzing over of a younger life of disappointment compounded by frustrated projection and the final great failure of a marriage, was well thought through and not over forced.

Where IS the next one?

Guess there is not much to add, except that the story wrenched my guts so badly i wanted to hit something. Scary with the obsessed father and sad that things got so bad for Darrell before he finally could start on the road to a new life. And of course the big question: when will you write the sequel, so we can find out who Darrell becomes ?