King Riot Excerpt from My Memoir “Darkness dwells in all of us, waiting for justification to be released. Have you ever seen yourself in the face of somebody you didn’t want to be? I did. In 1992 I saw it in the faces of the looters on TV the
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The Real World Excerpt from Climbing a Burning Rope “In less than a year after leaving drug free Synanon I became hooked on smokes, pot, and booze. I didn’t know how to cope with the radical change of reentering outsider society. I self-medicated to handle the stress. I took to
Integrity In Writing and Life A main reason it took about nine years to write my memoir is that I was an alcoholic and was drinking too much. I would get drunk and try to write because it was one of the only ways I could cope with the hurt