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Cherubell
Who was I to question reality?
As the light fractured into its familiar colors, I questioned again.
I balanced my treaded foot on a granite surround, these words etched deep:
‘It’s not the size of the person in the fight, but the size of the fight in the person.’
This balancing act in a garden within a sanctuary became my new reality. A crossroads, a junction, a tightrope walk between the firm, enduring granite and the sodden grass of the everyday.
A sense of poetic inevitability washed over me as the words of my life – past and future – enveloped me with the comfort of bedrock and splintered light. How fitting that these words formed in prose, a passion from my youth now reignited, burning too bright to ignore. Were they my words, or those of a power greater than myself? The mystery lingers.
Is life a simple journey? Not in my experience.
This is my journey, told in prose.
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Living with the Voices of Watchers and Hope
Inside the mind of a Schizophrenic Scouser
This book tackles the stigmas surrounding mental illness with raw honesty and dark humour. From straitjackets to fearmongering, from serial killers to the boardroom, the protagonist navigates life under the constant weight of being watched – a prisoner in her own mind.
But when does psychosis become a threat to those who don’t understand it? For her, it’s not the voices in her head that are most frightening, but the people around her. With humour and small victories, she learns to cope in a world that often feels scarier than her own thoughts.
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