A Cardiac Arrest

About the Book

David Platon, after the deaths of both his parents, the suicide of a friend, and the death of a beloved pet, falls in love with a youth he meets at a swimming pool. The relationship, which is consensual, becomes intimate. It comes to the attention of the authorities and although the relationship would not be illegal in most European countries, in the sex-panic, stereotyping atmosphere in the United States, David is sentenced to prison. Upon release, David is forced to register as a sex offender. David, who has been writing books under a pen name since the early 1970s, in an oversight, neglects to list his pen name as an "alias" on the registration form. Seeking to find a spiritual home that would accept him, David begins to attend a church that was recommended as progressive and diverse by a woman he met at a baseball game. Unfortunately, before he has a chance to have a "home visit" with a pastor to explain his past, someone in the congregation checks registration website and discovers David's listing under his real name. David is arrested for using his pen name for a new book of his that was to be released at the time he was attending church. David is again sentenced to prison unjustly. However, his strength of spirit and ability to still love triumphs in the end.

About the Author

Donald Motier was born in 1943 and graduated from college in 1970 with a BA in philosophy and minor in English. He did graduate work in philosophy on Being and Time by Martin Heidegger under the distinguished Professor Dr. Rudolph Fischer of Vienna, Austria. Following his academic career, Mr. Motier worked in the library field first as an interlibrary loan librarian at a public library from 1970 to 1976 and as a genealogy/local history and reference librarian at a state library from 1977 to 1993, when he retired to write full-time. In 1969, while still in college, he began writing prose poetry in the style of Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, publishing his first collection Faces of Being in 1971. After publishing several collections of poetry, he began writing novellas, nonfiction, a travel book, and two works of “faction” based on the Civil War experiences of his great-grandfather, who met Abraham Lincoln and his family while bivouacked on the White House lawn from 1861 to 1862 and was befriended by the president’s son William “Willie” Wallace Lincoln. A Cardiac Arrest is his seventeenth book.