Promise Keeping Series | Inclusion Sins of Omission Literary Fiction
Promises To Donato — Chapter 8: The Things You Find Inside Old Wells
Down the well of wrong, where evil takes a long fall
Caution: This chapter contains discussion of violence and child abuse that may be upsetting or traumatic for some readers. It is intended for a mature audience. I recommend you proceed with caution if you are triggered or sensitive to such content. I understand if this type of fictionalized literature content is not for everyone.
Do we really remember the past as it actually was? Or do we rewrite what happened to ease our minds when bad things happen? What tricks do memories play when we remember from the vantage of being a child? If three of us saw the same thing, why do we all remember it differently? These are the questions that sat with us on the day we buried Donato. With that Dear Readers step into the world where it literally rains oranges . . .
Barbara Ann
(May 12, 1988)
I don’t know why but sitting here in front of that casket, my mind keeps drifting back in time to Christmas Eve 1958 . . . When we did all those neighborhood snowball parties for days, each night beginning with a group of…
