From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries.

It's a part of KCRW's Independent Prooser Project,

a laboratory for independent radio producers, writers, and performers.

And today on the program, and performers.

And today on the program, Caught.

Go ahead, roll a stop sign, tell a little lie, take the extra donut,

nine times out of ten, no one's going to know.

But of course, it's just at that moment

when you think you're safe,

that the searchlight stops on you,

and there's no hope of denying it.

On this episode of Unfictional, three stories about getting found out publicly,

and what happens after that?

We begin with a story from our friend Carlos Kotkin.

He's been on the program a few times now,

a veteran of the moth storytelling events,

and the author of a brand new book

about his complicated love life called Please God Let It Be Herpies.

And today he's here to tell us about this thing he does in the dark

when he's sure there's no way anyone will ever know.

But of course the day inevitably comes when he's caught.

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