All Comments on 'I Am Dan'

I didn't enjoy reading this revelation. I'm taking it as being true----I wish it were fiction. "Enjoy" is certainly not the word to use. Your revelation is moving. I vote a 50 because this is something entirely different.

I have enjoyed the stories that you have posted. I'll have to go to your list and read the ones I haven't read.

It is infinitely hard for you dealing with your situation. It is hard in some ways for us to deal with it. I don't want to be patronizing---that's not what I want. I can imagine---but only imagine---the struggle of daily life for you. You are heroic in a sense---just coping. I don't want to make you feel bad in any way. There is just no adequate way to express solidarity with you except to say 'I want to and I'll try" but know that it comes up inadequate.

I guess the thing is to read and comment on your stories---not giving you any slack for anything that we criticaly think should be improved. I have enjoyed what I have read of your stories.

Good luck. Hang in there. Keep writing and posting.

playingcardcompany

if it's fiction or fact. if it's fiction, i could shoot you myself. hate people who are presumptous enough to think or pretend that they can understand others sorrows, anguish, depression, hardships, or suffering. if it's true, then my heart goes out to you, and i will never pretend to even begin to understand the depth of your feelings. i could take all the sorrow, hardships, suffering, depression, etc. that i have experienced, heap them onto your shoulders, and it would seem but like a feather to you. i have you bookmarked in my favorites, read all your stories. you are good. hope your writing brings you as much enjoyment and pleasure as your stories bring to us.

you're a GOOD MAN. HANG IN THERE. YOU ARE WORTHWHILE.

to share this account, considering it's true. Just know that through your writing, you reach many and continue to contribute so much to the world. I agree that writing is often an outlet for what we cannot escape.

We all live in our little prisons...but yeah, some more than others...

Is this true, magmaman?

Yes, I publish as a woman sometimes. I am a 64 year old man, though.

Sometimes.

Sometimes I am big, sometimes I am small. Sometimes I am weak, sometimes I am strong.

Sometimes I am real..

Sometimes I am not.

This computer is a window to this world, God's gift to me.

I am but a moment, no more...

No less.

MGM

I survived my time at war and came home to "the world with the sure knowledge that I had killed people and was glad to have done it." I thought that my days of killing were over and never again would I look into the eyes of a person I killed again.

However, one cold dark night I was driving a large truck down the road, following a police officer who I knew was on a call somewhere, I had slowed down to provide some safe distance between her and I. You can never predict what a officer on call might do at the last second. She stopped at a traffic light controlled by a flashing red light for her lane, mine was guarded by a yellow flashing light. I had my attention focused on the officers car and did not see the small white car come across the opposite lanes moving fast. I only saw the flash of white as the small car passed in front of the police car, and knew in a split second that I was going to hit that small car. I remember today as clearly now as then the sight of a young black girls face looking up at me, eye to eye, seeing her put her hand up against the glass of the passenger door, as if her frail hand could stop the mass of the truck I was driving. I had just enough time to mash my brakes to the floor and hold on to the steering wheel, and for the thought to flash through my mind, " this is going to be bad".

When movement stopped and things settled down I had to make myself remember to set the parking brakes and turn on my emergency flashing lights, to turn off the engine to guard against fire. I climbed down to look into the crushed car under the front of my truck. I found what looked like a two headed woman sitting upright in the car. I reverted to war time reactions and tested both girls for pulse and breathing. The girl who had put her hand up to stop my hitting her, beat out her last few faint heartbeats against my fingers and her eyes began to change. The other girl looked no less dead at the time, but managed to be saved after some good medical attention.

It struck me how different it was to kill a person when you want to, and how it differs to do it by accident. It is something I have never forgotten, even for a second, and have asked forgiveness of god and all others who it seemed logical to say I am sorry to.

What I am trying to convey to you Dan, is that sometimes life takes a turn that you did not expect or welcome. Afterward you have choices, it is good to know that your choice to go forward with your life and to provide entertainment to the many of us here, has paid off some of your heaviness of heart.

I for one thank you for providing to me, material to read and savor in my mind that helps me to enjoy good feelings of life and joy of knowing women and loving them as I do. And for letting me forget for a little while those other memories that are always jangling my nerves for attention to them. That Sir is a great gift to give. Thanks again

a salute ...

incredible!

Dan,

Hope you continue to write... you have a very varied imagination, which is how it would be, isn't it?!

Hope this note makes you at least get a little relief!!!!

Keep on doing what you can; we care!!

Jack

You've touched us all

You are very creative, and have a gift in you ability to write. I thank you for helping all of us open our minds to some interesting ideas and explore feelings we would not have thought of without your help. I look forward to reading more of your stories.

Of course I still have no idea if it is you or not - or who you are - not really -

But it feels real - you are a good writer - so hmmm??

If it is you then my sympathy for the people you hurt and I understand your pain and conflict - I feel compassionately towards you because you meant no harm - were simply stupid as so many are -

Either way good luck with your life -

Fuck me thats dark Dan---if its true you have my sympathy,if not well it was short and sweet and held my interest.

We all tend to forget there are people out there in pain when we are ablebodied,and have few regrets------- I gave it a 5

Unsure. Skeptical.

Wow!!!!!