I Became Pain: Becoming the man who would of protected me as a child

Back Cover BlurbCome with me back into the shadows of my childhood.Not as a tale made beautiful by time, but as memory returning to the place it was first wounded. Before I understood the meaning of survival, I was already living it.This memoir follows the pieces of my early years as I return to the house, to him, and to the silence that lived between every wall. It is a reflection on hunger, abuse, fear, bruising, and the scars that were not always seen, but were always carried.As a child, I thought monsters lived under the bed or hidden inside cupboards. Instead, I learned they could be human.I write this not through judgement, but through understanding. Because sometimes the truth is not found in what happened alone, but in what it made you become. Pain can build a cage, but memory can become the key.These are no longer my ghosts to carry.I am penning this so the cell door can finally shut, never to return.

Pagina's: 210, Paperback, Independently published