Excerpt: Damaged Minds

PROLOGUE: Trapped inside your own mind, damaged by your own lies you can NEVER escape yourself. The thin barrier that defines an over-active imagination and clinically insane can be hard to determine, hard to reach, hard to… stop. What happens when ones mind simply slips away and that reality in which one lived their whole life is flip turned upside down? Managing a whole new reality can push someone to the edge of life, that cliff that determines life and death, most often… death.

Imagine for a moment, if you will. Living in a body that’s no longer yours, with thoughts that seem foreign, a language unspoken but readable in a mind that’s turned black with time. With Memories floating around, clouding an imperfect view, glazing over like a sheet of ice. Such memories seem like nightmares, and you desperately wish they were only nightmares. Yet they seem so real, so vivid that they HAVE to have happened, how could they not? But with no memory of such things ever occurring in a conscious state what would you do?

Could you continue to live day by day, forgetting and pushing what you wish to be only dark dreams away into the back corner of your mind, thinking that it would all go away? Could you wind up telling yourself so many lies to cover up one great one that you actually start believing your own lies?

What’s real, and what’s a lie? How can you escape?

Or can you even escape at all?