All Comments on 'Julius and Tom'

This beautifully narrated story was well worth reading.

I suspect I may never forget it, nor Tom. His endurance and journey touched my heart.

Agree, not erotic.

Just plain ugly. I'm sorry I read it. Don't see the authors reasons for writing it.

I admit it's an ugly story. Some stories are ugly.

As far as why I wrote it, as I said in the intro, it was stuck in my head. I wondered if a master could really love a slave, and vice versa, not pretend dominance but actually dominance. My stories never seem to end up where I had originally thought they would go. As I started writing, Julius was intended to be the unequivocal hero and Tom the villain (or his mom). Instead, Julius ended up being a very cruel man. He has every reason to be cruel but he is cruel. Tom ended up being more sad and pathetic than evil. I tried re-working it into a less ugly story but in the end found this version to be the strongest.

My only request would be that if you vote, vote on whether it was effective in moving you not on whether you liked the tale itself; if that makes any sense.

I did warn readers it was not erotic.

There isn’t a thing you wrote that didn’t actually take place in history. Who knows, this story may be true somewhere in this world today as in the past. Yes, slavery is a blight on America’s past. Should never have happened. Human nature being what it is, and Julius never having any deity to be thankful to, why wouldn’t he be a bitter and hateful soul. All he lived until he liberated himself was hate. Society being what it was in those times meant that Tom could never be anything different than what he was. Especially in the south. It was a story, told from the perspective of a person shown no respect, or love from the heart. Good job.

Thank you for the comments.

despite the warning not what I expected