Experiencing the dark side of a mental disorder
“The experience that you are having is the experience that you need,” my psychiatrist once told me after listening to my account of a terrible accident I witnessed. I was terribly depressed at the time and harboring self-harming thoughts. Then the horrific experience changed my perspective about life. The following excerpt from my upcoming debut…
At 500X under the microscope, one can see the fracture of a metal that has been exposed to stress or high temperatures. First there is the initiation, when a triggering event produces a fissure, a distinctive line following a pattern. In sand stone, the concentric circles of the propagation receive the name of plumose.…
I have learned to walk in the dark house so well See colors where there is only a void Find beauty in the gloom. Bend at the corners, Stride with confidence in the long corridors Avoid the depths of the abysm on the edge Muffled in the comfort of silence Invisible to those…