Michael McDermit is a writer and musician living in Los Angeles, and the Associate Editor of Fogged Clarity, an arts review. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon, and is a contributing member of the My Idea of Fun artist collective based out of his flood-famous hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He currently teaches writing to underserved college students in South LA. Follow him on Twitter at @mtmcdermit.
It took me nearly twenty years and the power of a fine film to fully realize what happened to me in the confessional was an inappropriate act by an adult against a child.