Dark Shadows
Viewing comments for Chapter 7 "The Good, The Mad, and The Trusting"A collection of short stories and flash fiction
6 total reviews
Comment from Josipher32
I think you and I were destined to meet. Ha! My father had mental illness, as do I. My mother was an alcoholic. Oh, the stories we could swap! Is this fiction or non-fiction? (Honestly) (or a mixture of both?) Anyway, this story brought me to tears. It was painful to read. But excellent.
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2007
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I think you and I were destined to meet. Ha! My father had mental illness, as do I. My mother was an alcoholic. Oh, the stories we could swap! Is this fiction or non-fiction? (Honestly) (or a mixture of both?) Anyway, this story brought me to tears. It was painful to read. But excellent.
Comment Written 02-Jul-2007
reply by the author on 02-Jul-2007
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To be honest... it is a mixture of both fact and fiction. My mother is an alcoholic and has been for years (as was my father... talk about a warped childhood..... *shudder*). Nobody was ever "good enough" to please her or make her proud. The two memories are true events.... the dreams are true events.... the actual violence obviously never happened though as a teenager MANY such thoughts graced my dreams. lol
I'm glad you liked it. When I first posted it... ummmm...not sure when that was... I was really worried that I would get knocked around about it and came really, really close to never sharing it.
NOW, if you want to really look at "destined to meet", we have alcoholism AND mental illness. I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar 2... yeah! not. Anyway... point being, I'm sure you're right. There's probably a lot of stories we could swap.
Thanks so much for stopping in to read through my work. I wish I could offer another thriller type story for you to check out... but I think the others are mystery and such. :-D
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I am also Bipolar not sure if 1 or 2. I'd love for you to read "The Downward Spiral" "Sacricial Journey" and "The Fifth Floor" and see if you could relate to anything that was said.
Comment from Iron Maiden7o7
A very well written piece. Done professionally, clean, straight to the point, it's like hearing it from someone, instead of reading it, if that makes any sense to you, it was a great read, thanks for sharing.
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A very well written piece. Done professionally, clean, straight to the point, it's like hearing it from someone, instead of reading it, if that makes any sense to you, it was a great read, thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 20-Feb-2005
Comment from hellfire0808
This story is overall good but I feel that insted of skipping over telling the reader what it was the mother did to her you should explaine. The way it is now its hard to sympathise with the girl. The reader is sure that they should they just arn't sure why.
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This story is overall good but I feel that insted of skipping over telling the reader what it was the mother did to her you should explaine. The way it is now its hard to sympathise with the girl. The reader is sure that they should they just arn't sure why.
Comment Written 19-Feb-2005
Comment from StoryMomma
Wow. Very interesting. I love how you explained so thoroughly the relationship to your mother. I was very drawn to the details of her "madness" as I thought this added to the compassion I felt for you. I also found it to be an interesting twist that "people will look on me in awe": it is not at all how I expected it to be in the end. Very good.
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Wow. Very interesting. I love how you explained so thoroughly the relationship to your mother. I was very drawn to the details of her "madness" as I thought this added to the compassion I felt for you. I also found it to be an interesting twist that "people will look on me in awe": it is not at all how I expected it to be in the end. Very good.
Comment Written 17-Feb-2005
Comment from lynnvet
This sort of grabbed me and held me, Ricouard. It's a good psychological thriller, with all the making of a great story. I liked your descriptions of inner torment and confused feelings of love. You did a good job of relaying your feelings at various points in the story. You might check your spaces after sentences, but I found no other errors.
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This sort of grabbed me and held me, Ricouard. It's a good psychological thriller, with all the making of a great story. I liked your descriptions of inner torment and confused feelings of love. You did a good job of relaying your feelings at various points in the story. You might check your spaces after sentences, but I found no other errors.
Comment Written 17-Feb-2005
Comment from pawn
The one place where it's appropriate to wear emotions on your sleeve
Your diary!
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The one place where it's appropriate to wear emotions on your sleeve
Your diary!
Comment Written 17-Feb-2005