The Tower

I am posting this short story for a second time for a reason. It first appeared on 6/08/2023. Ever made to feel like an outsider? The boy/young man climbs a black tower and finds an image that is shunned and cast out.
I made a decision affirmed today by another. As I said when the story was first posted, one of my students feels shunned on account of his genius. His math tutor and I survived a slew of tutors and therapists because we are nonconformists.
My shunning is for a different reason, for no reason at all. Cruelty whispers, "I'm a better Catholic than you." The echo rebounds, "I am a better man."
Others have left. I am not alone, now gone elsewhere. I am not sad, rather content. ​Those of us who know, know we go for the Latin Mass. Some go for the merriment in...
​The Tower.