September 18th, 2022 → 1:33 pm @ Lea // No Comments

“Every true man’s apparel fits your thief.” — Measure for Measure

The “Walmart Chapter” came out this week on the BeforeFergusonBeyondFerguson website. Readers have told me they consider it to be the most heart-wrenching of the chapters in Seeking Forgiveness. It is certainly where things start to change in the plot and with the characters. On some level the chapter asks: What do you do when people see you, and assume something about you, even though it isn’t true? That, based on your appearance (i.e. your “apparel”) you look like a thief, or a murderer, or a liberal, or a Jew or some other such thing even when you are not. What do you do?