Thriller: A guilt-ridden author seeks to confess his sins and find salvation from his book

Being an author automatically came with a wide range of criticism. And Connor had heard it all.

And like any good self-hating artist, he had absorbed the nastiest pieces of criticism and made it part of his psyche. Some choice quotes included:

The protagonist is clearly a thinly-veiled self-insert of the author, and not even a compelling one.

A series of monologues in the guise of a fiction novel.

A cry for help if I ever saw one.

Both Connor White and his characters need to be introduced to the concept of therapy.

This book would severely depress me if it didn’t so colossally annoy me.

And so on and so forth. There was one particular incident, however, that always led the pack of insults, and it wasn’t even particularly compelling or well-phrased.

It was back in high school, when he had written a short story for his language class. His teacher had hated it, calling it “corny” and “cringeworthy”. She had despised it so much that she had actually read it out in front of the whole class, pointing out each flaw as she went on. It was one of the most humiliating experiences of his life, and the laughter often rang out in his ears whenever...

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