Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35515534-20190602184445/@comment-35711173-20190603023738

Starman2012 wrote: The point of the story was that Harold got involved with a cult.

A cult wasn't even on my list of things this could be. From your line "The car...the robes...the blood... all too late" it sounds to me like Harold was driving drunk and ran down a priest who was crossing the street while wearing his full traditional robes. The priest was so badly injured he didn't even looked human anymore and Harold was shocked at the blood all over the place. But it was all too late so he drove off drunk, leaving the priest to bleed out and die, hoping to get away with the crime. It was a blackout drunk, but the edge of his mind came back with that half-memory of the smashed in face of the priest.