Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:02:55 +0800
From: Pedrick Oman <pedoman1975@gmail.com>
Subject: The Captive Boy, Epilog

As I have said, this story was evolving in my mind for more than 20 years,
and was really an important one to me.  Well, Matt said that he wondered if
there was any autobiographic background.  No, not really like that, but
really thanks for his concern.

I was a lonely boy in my childhood.  Not many friends, and not good
relations with my parents and my brother.  So I liked to hide in the room
and imagine many stories myself.  Johnny was "born" then.  (Johnny was my
English name when I was a boy.)

Several years ago, I started to write my imaginations down.  I wrote many
stories, but mostly were very bad.  However, writing these stories still
made me happy, and made me think of my lonely childhood.  Then I started to
try to translate some of my better stories into English and posted to the
Nifty archive.  This one is my fourth story on the Nifty.  It is really a
challenge, and thanks to Matt, he really helped me a lot.

Well, of course there were no sexual scenes in my original imagination.
The sex and man/boy love elements were added later.  That is, Joey was
"born" after Johnny.  (Actually, that made Johnny "older" than Joey.
Really funny, isn't it?)  It still took me nearly one year to form the
whole story.

I'm really happy to know that you enjoyed this story.  I was not quite
confident about this story and my English at the beginning.  Matt helped me
for my English, and we worked together to make this story even better.  He
told me that he enjoyed this story very much.  He let me know that my
English was actually fine.  He taught me to have more confidence about
myself.  I'd like to thank Matt for his work, and his encouragement.

Besides, one thing Matt taught me except English, was to enjoy writing.
I'm not a professional and prolific writer, and I'm quite busy on my own
job and my own family, but I'll do my best to keep writing, and enjoy it.
Thank you, and hope to see you soon.


-- pedoman <pedoman1975@gmail.com>