I'm Shooting Myself in the Foot with this Next Story...

I really, really wondered if I should post this. I've showed this to my sister. I wrote it, after all.  And she is VERY forgiving. I can't believe I used to think this way. But I really did. I know I have often told myself I find things I've written years back and find all sorts of things wrong with it--PEOPLE REALLY DO CHANGE, I realized; children of God really do grow, I see--and I hope readers will NOT find this present story and assume the writer still assumes the same perspectives; she does not!

I wonder if there were authors who were once the slaveowners themselves who wrote about their negro best friends but thought themselves of a better, higher class as well (of course!) Their stories reflected various inequalities of the system, but in time, these authors came to think differently, wanted to hide what they had written, to throw them away. In fact, they probably did, and to be safe, some even burned them.

Maybe it's taken some time for authors' eyes to be opened (God can wait a lifetime), but please understand it does happen...even if sometimes it happens after they shoot themselves in the foot!

The next story I'm posting, "Daniel Train" is like that--like I'm shooting myself in the foot, because it has some things you might find offensive. I read it now and cringe here and there, wish I hadn't written it like that. But...hopefully, you'll read it with the understanding that people--even writers--can change, and with that understanding, maybe you'll enjoy it anyway.

Oh--that's my drawing mannequin, "Woodkin" hoisting his pencil with extender and introducing the story.