So, the shrink suggests I do what I enjoy, perhaps put pen to paper (figuratively speaking) and express my thoughts and fears. Write them down, go back and read them, grammar check and analyze and peer into the real 400lb Gorilla - not just the outward persona, but rather the innermost workings of my poor little pea brain.
So, that's what I did. The result wasn't necessarily what I expected, but rather something altogether different. Rather than telling myself my story, I began writing a fiction series that ended up being amazingly and refreshingly dark. I called the series, "Absolution for the Average Joe," a series of books that tell the tale of individuals who have experienced something traumatic in their lives and how those traumas manifest themselves outwardly. The trauma is of their own doing and a price is to be exacted from each of them in a similar manner of the trauma they caused. It's their act of contrition, their opportunity to right wrongs and do so in quite the dramatic fashion. This particular series centers around a man by the name of Samuel and illustrates his descent into darkness and how he came to call his acts of retribution "Forced Absolution."
I've completed the first two books of the series and they are available on Amazon.com for $.99 each, downloadable for Kindle.
The first is called,
Touch of Darkness.
The second is entitled,
Angels Have Fallen.
Do me a favor and pick up a copy of each, download them to your Kindle or load them into your Kindle Reader software on your Mac or PC.
Thank you. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Gorilla
