Black Orchid by Arjay

Whenever you do something outside of a community’s morale, either because you are ill or simply because you are human, it can have a profound impact on your place in this community. If this subculture is religious and has contained your family and a great deal of your network, the effects can be devastating. We – many of us, looking from the outside in – see what happens when people who are in the public eye lose face as a result of faulty thinking and poor decision making and it is easy, sitting around a bar, a breakfast table, a coffee shop, to jump on the band wagon for a bit of punishment. But this kind of punishing effect is multiplied in thousands of small ways any time that line is crossed by everyday people and the higher the community holds the stakes for a mistake or…