Well that would be a head fuck, yes. Truth or fiction? I suppose it doesn't matter. I guess I hope it is fiction. I enjoyed it in any case, more for the writing than the feeling it left me with.
Hey friendly word of advice, if you want more eyes on your posts here one of the main things to do is pay attention to what tags you use. Since the built-in search functionality here is so lacking (read almost non-existent), the main way people find posts is by browsing popular tags. You can just go to the steemit.com homepage and see the most popular tags on the left, but you can also check the popularity of a tag with the following URL format:
https://steemit.com/created/TAGNAME
This will pull up the most recent posts using that tag. If it is a popular tag you should be seeing lot of posts within the last hour or even last few minutes. Your goal should be to use the most popular tags that are relevant to your post. "introduceyourself" should only be used for an actual introduction post (and you even see people getting flagged sometimes for what is called "tag spam", using tags unrelated to their post). "inpoetry" is not a popular tag. Just FYI, "story" is the most popular writing tag.
Good luck man!
Cheers - Carl
Dag Nabbit, Carl! That is stupendously grreat advice! Of course I should have realized - how is anyone going to find me, otherwise? That's the best thing I've learned so far. But then how did YOU find my little whiny story? Just Kidding.
Thanks so much for taking the time to explain such an inportant thing. Now I know that it might not be what I'm writing - but where I'm placing it.
Cheers! BTW: Yeah, the story is true but the mom had a good life in the end and the dad wouldn't talk to me - till I presented myself on his doorstep so I could look him in the eye.!