Hi and welcome to Domestic Tales. I created this blog to promote my book called
Domestic Tales:The Confession of a Whoremonger
I wanted to explore my theme, plot and the motifs I used to keep a reader engaged in my story. Let me share my backstory about how I came up with the title. Well the story is based on my personal experience when I was 15 years old. I met a young man who pretended to be the same age as me and used that to his advantage. One of the ways he was able to achieve this was the unfortunate fact that he had been held back in the 11th grade for 3 years. You see, back in 1982, adults were allowed to go to high school with minors. No one ever considered what would happen if one of these adult students became a predator and preyed on the young and innocent.
This is what happened to me. I met a predator who relentlessly preyed on me until I gave in. How did this happen? Why didn’t anyone stop this? Why didn’t I just say no and stay into the books? Well the answer to all of these questions was "okay." So the answer is use manipulation to sway me to become his girlfriend. he was also very Charming and he had a special way of talking to female adults to get what he wanted and it might case to get them to turn the other cheek turn a blind eye. How did it happen? We met at a school function. He was there with a friend that I grew up with and he took advantage of that situation as well. When he first saw me he told me that I was so beautiful and as I sat down I said down Indianapolis eating tween us. Conversation was very smooth. He asked why I sat so far away. Immediately he started moving into my heart. He loves bombing what compliments. I had no defense.
Growing up with low self-esteem and having a negative self-image of who I was with no father figure, he played right into my weakness. I needed the attention that he was giving me at the moment. Although before the evening was out he did ask me to be his girlfriend. I'm only to make his ex-girlfriend jealous who was also attending the event. I was reluctant at first but he begged me and pleaded with me to show me all his scars that were left on his body from her family beating him up. And the first tactic of making me feel sorry for him work. I went ahead and accepted his advance and from that night we were in item. I knew deep down inside my heart that it was a lie but I felt sorry for him and he said he really wanted to get back with his girlfriend but he wanted to make her jealous by being with me so she can come back to him. but one thing happened that I didn't plan on was to clean out that lie the lines became blurred. Not only did he want me to be his girlfriend he also wanted me to perform that's his girlfriend. And again lines became so blurred in my heart I was so happy for him that I went ahead and did what he asked and hoped to help them get back together. He began to come to my house everyday. Call me everyday. Come by my school everyday and then finally asks me to come visit him by luring me over to his house using our mutual friend as a reason saying that a mutual friend asked me to come because he was having problems with his girlfriend and he wanted me to come over there so he can talk to me. yeah this guy knew that I was jumping for my friend and he used that to his advantage. When I got there my friend was not there he pulled me into his room and that's when the molestation happened and later on when I found out what was going on with me I found out that I was being raped.
So later on in the book I endured so much domestic violence he ended up impregnating me and after I had the baby I had already planned on leaving him. Three months after giving birth, I met another young man and he helped me to escape the situation that I was in. However we ended up falling in love. I didn't know how to go from one abusive relationship to a relationship where this person treated me like a queen. I was in a storm. And I was confused and I thought that being with another person was the answer to overcoming the psychological effect that an abusive relationship left me in. The storm I was in was sent to destroy me but because I had an upbringing in church I knew that had the storm was coming to develop me. But I had to go through it in order to make it out in the end. And in the going through is where all the heartache that hurt the Betrayal, the disappointment and sin took place.
So I had to eventually make a choice whether or not I was able to make it through the storm alone or stay with this young man that was there to support me and return, risking both of our Lives because now my ex kept threatening to kill us both. so that's the gist of the book and so from there I wanted to talk or explain more about the main characters in the book.
The main characters are Karrianna, Nigel and Bryson. Nigel was the young man that I met who was older. He was a professional boxer whose mother had passed would cause drama and his life and also caused him to be held back in high school causing him to not graduate on time. This delay allowed him to meet me and because he was now a master manipulator he preyed on Karrianna.
The setting took place in Tampa Florida at Thomas Jefferson High School and Hillsborough High School. I wanted to keep carry-on her character and her playful youthful atmosphere just to show how after meeting Nigel she was now dealing with adult problems while still in a child mine. Also wanted to talk about the title again later on after I met Bryson. Bryson was a Pentecostal and he was being counseled by him and his two big brothers are what he should do when it comes to continuing a relationship with me.
Well the turning point in his life happened with a main question in my life after he made a confession to me. He confessed that what we were doing was wrong and that what was going on between us was that he was acting like a whoremonger. So I thought he was being such a benevolent person but a question quickly grabbed my heart which was, if you are a whoremonger, what does that make me for dealing with you? And he answered a whore. That's what changed my life and I began to fight my way back to the other side of the storm not knowing that I was supposed to go through the storm but I didn't want to deal with more hurt, more pain and more rejection, so the main character, Karrianna decided to return back to a place of familiarity.
The questions that I want for my readers to answer are: 1. What would they do if they were in this situation? 2.Was Karrianna right to return back to the person who she left alone and heartbroken? 3. Will the storm make Karrianna stronger or will it destroy her?
