The Real lJ Idol, Topic 9: Trolley Problem

[my_name_is_jenn]

He was drinking again. She could smell it as soon as she walked into his house. She didn't even have to call out for him. It wouldn't have mattered if she did. He was passed out on the couch, oblivious to the world around him

Comments

[garnigal]

HOLY shit, that's awesome. Phenomenal, and perfectly framed and tied together.

[my_name_is_jenn]

Thank you so much!

[halfshellvenus]

Yikes! Dark, and yet you can understand why the narrator made the choice she did.

[my_name_is_jenn]

I think she struggled with the decision for a moment, but after two or three decades of seeing her father drink himself into oblivion on an almost daily basis, and then seeing that his drinking was more important than her son's life, the decision was made rather easily.

[magazhchi]

Wicked. But I don't blame her. Loved the way you made the moral dilemma seem like a moral duty. Well done.

[my_name_is_jenn]

Thank you. This was one of the first topics where, after Wikipedia-ing the meaning, the idea instantly came to me.

[murielle]

So, she murdered her father to save her son. Interesting twist on the prompt. Very well written. Brava!

[my_name_is_jenn]

And she didn't feel too bad about it either.

Thanks!

[dee_aar2]

Whoa !!!

That was some twist ... but on hindsight that decision was not so hard to make considering the kind of life the father led. And atleast in death he became useful to needy people.

This was a great take on prompt.

[my_name_is_jenn]

Yes, after two or three decades of seeing her father nearly drink himself to death, t he decision was quite easy to make.

Thank you so much!