Our final submission for this inaugural issue of Chapter One Magazine comes from Kamika “Kamikaze” Mincer. Her story
Echoes: A Memoir of Mind and Shadows, is a harrowing account of overcoming darkness and finding strength in the light.
Echoes in the Dark
(What Hurts Me)
Before the journey toward the light can truly begin, one must first confront the silence of the void. This opening section is a descent into the raw, unpolished reality of survival, where the weight of inherited silence and the sting of betrayal form a heavy fog.
It is here that we examine the masks we wore to stay safe and the moments where the world felt loud but our hearts felt hollow.
This is the foundation of the story—not because pain defines us, but because you cannot heal what you refuse to face.
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