There’s a problem with guilt.

Event Horizon by William R. Ablan
Will Diaz learns, “Not everyone lives happily ever after.” A hunting trip turns into a manhunt for a murderer in the beautiful San Juan Mountains of Colorado. And no matter what Will does, he’s already lost. Learn more by clicking on the picture.

We play “Maybe Games” with it.

We say things like “maybe I should have been there.” Or, “maybe I should have called more.”

Maybe is one of those words you can’t prove the result of.

The results of maybe exists in an alternate universe we can’t access. Maybe is word of regret.

In my next novel, Will Diaz finds himself saying things like “Maybe if we hadn’t helped him (meaning Max – A man Will considered a good friend and a brother – and he shot and killed him at the end of that book) maybe Eva would still be alive and maybe Max would still be alive.”

As someone in his support group says, “You can’t prove a maybe.”

Maybe is a word, Will soon realizes, is a word that’s trapping him in his guilt feelings. Max died. And as Pastor Morgan tells him, “And maybe if you’d have given him one last chance, he’d have killed both you and Jonesy.”

Like all things, Will is just going to have to learn to live with it.

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