VIEWPOINTS EPILOGUE
Thank you for staying with the story of John/Laura and her traumas.
I have written about PTSD, and survivor guilt, things that will live and fester forever in my soul, but this time wanted to try and write both a mystery and an exploration of how a soul can be destroyed by cruelty and selfishness. I wanted to try and get under the skin of an obsessed, broken person, and let them find redemption through the things we all hope for: family, friends, love.
I hope I have succeeded here, it has been an awfully distressing tale to write. There were times when I was consumed by the story, others when the nature of what I was attempting to bring to life almost made me ill.
The story continues, obviously, but now that Laura's pain has been laid bare on the page, along with that of Lucinda and Dad Pete, I feel that the nature of the story that is left to tell is fundamentally dfferent.
If people want to know what happened next, and can't work it out, I wll try to do it justice, but the nature of the story will be so, so different.
I need to breathe for a while. Too many demons.