Comments on: King

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:41:25 +0000

Glad you made it out OK. What a creepy story! I could picture everything you were describing.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:21:42 +0000

So, uh, this story gave me the willies in the worst way. GAH!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:15:13 +0000

Wow. I can’t even think of a rational comment (maybe that’s a sign of what a good writing you did?) I just can’t stop imaging the creepy guy, the ants…
I’m so impressed that you stayed, and while I’m an atheist and consider myself more driven by logic than emotion, I am totally drawn into this and really believe that you could feel the evil.

By: erica

erica — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:37:49 +0000

Damn fine piece of writing.

By: H

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:07:21 +0000

That’s freaky.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:42:44 +0000

Eeeeeyah. That is my “holy crap I think I just peed a little” sound, because this was pretty godawfully scary. My mom was in a… I hesitate to call it a cult, so let’s just say a group of extreme Christians who believed that they served God by committing evil — they thought that without evil for God to smite, God had no way to prove his divinity, or some such — and a whole lot of this hit a little bit close to home. I thought you were trying your hand at fiction at first, and when I realized this was a real experience I just had to sort of stare blankly at the screen for a while.

You are one tough cookie, yo. I would have yelped and run away at the first blacklight-lit bird carcass.

By: ie

ie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:21:57 +0000

Wow.

This reminds me of books that I have read (Stephen King for example) where there is a meeting with pure evil. That was it.
If you “felt” it, then it was true.

I have several healing methods on my “toolbelt” but at no time do I ever believe that I myself am doing any healing. Light flows through us, we are just the conductors.

By: jonniker

jonniker — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:50:16 +0000

Jen: Oh, it was evil in a way I can’t even explain. And I later talked about it with a Pentecostal minister, of all people, and what I determined was most frightening about it was the fact that for him, healing wasn’t about God. He WAS God, to those people, and he believed it. He considered himself divine, he absolutely did.

When I worked with the Reiki people who were based out of a church, what struck me about them — as well as the Pentecostals, surprisingly — was that they didn’t see healing as being about the practitioner, but about the practitioners ability to harness the power of the holy spirit. It was NEVER about the person. Ever.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:44:43 +0000

Migraines lady? Hmm, not so much. If someone had come out of the woodwork (or out of the washer-dryer set, maybe) and said that he had cured their blindness or made them walk again, maybe I would have felt like the evil and ants and general mess were for good reason.

By: Kristin H

Kristin H — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:38:53 +0000

Ooooh, good essay. Well written. Also, creepy as hell.