The small post directly below is fiction; there’s a tag on it, but I feel bad because it seems like it’s upsetting people, triggering things. Let’s just say that precise circumstance is fiction — it’s a composite, let’s say — but I have plenty of experience with what you’re all talking about. I’m sorry if any of you feel misled.
And I do feel the pain of your experiences. Oh, believe me, I do.
That’s what tags are for! I don’t have tags on my site – I kinda wish I did.
I would love to know where you “got” that “exercise” – I love writing exercises like that, where you are free to just GO, and where you also give yourself a time constraint.
Nice work.
It’s funny; don’t worry about it. People often misunderstand jokes… …and seriousness too.
Hm. Well, it wasn’t meant to be funny, actually.
I was going to say – it sure didn’t seem like a “joke” to me.
I wasn’t laughing. Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean that it can’t hit close to home. The best fiction often does.
It was, what it was: good fiction writing that would keep me wanting to read more…
JFH — Well, thank you. Very much.
Well, you know the old saw– Fiction is a big lie, in the middle of which you tell the truth.
Well done! You’ve had your own Orson Wells War of the Worlds controversy. Impressive results for a quick writing exercise…