The Damaged And Broken Collection
I wrote this in 2018, I am glad i didn’t give up and didn’t allow the errors of others ruin my life. Embracing living in the moment, living for the day helped bring me to the wonderful life I have now been leading.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
If “plans” went as intended, I would have had a full-time doc in my office and be semi-retired. Yet, after a series of misdiagnoses, and a post-op infection that almost killed me — I ended up left with nothing more than a damaged life and broken dreams.
I have given up on dreams and now try to focus on the moment.
My experiences are what have led me to write the series of stories that now dominate my free time. The truth is there are more of us who life has damaged, than there are those it has not. To demonstrate that not everyone recovers, and not every ending is the bullshit happiness displayed on reality television or on social media, I present — The Damaged and Broken Collection.
A series of stories that are hard looks into the psyche of those who are damaged and some who are eventually broken.
Author Background
I am an independent, self-published teller of tales, an author of scarcely any renown. However, as a storyteller, I know who I am, and with that persona, I am both confident and comfortable.
I invite you to visit my website, ShortStoryScribe.com and/or Amazon Author Pages if you are so inclined please purchase a copy and leave a review.
****Leonardi identifies primarily as a storyteller rather than a formal academic, emphasizing raw, narrative-driven impact over rigid grammatical structures. His personal website and bibliography can be explored via his Amazon Author Profile.
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