Having a loud and noisy mind is the fire you need to write true honest and raw emotions into words that most can't even comprehend about themselves. Battling depression, insomnia, anxiety, and bipolar-borderline personality disorder while also trying to live your life is an everlasting struggle with oneself. After living an over saturate life of self-destruction, partying, friends, legal troubles, going to see and playing in punk rock bands, sex, skateboarding, drugs, fast cars, more sex, violence, booze, more drugs, boyfriends, and traveling the country, dealing with mental illness can become your super power if you know what to do with it, which you will see in the Emily’s ‘rough around the edge’ raw style of writing and expressing honest thoughts that most would never speak aloud or have the balls to admit. We all feel fucked up in the head sometimes, and it helps to read something you can relate to.
This collection is compiled of Emily Ryan's unpublished works, such as poetry, song lyrics, excerpts from personal and professional journals, short stories, late-night thoughts, and hey, maybe a few mental breakdowns!
All photography was also done by the author and are just a few in a large professional collection of her travels across the USA.
Emily Ryan is from Cleveland, Ohio, and has been working as a writer and editor for over ten years. She now owns and operates her own writing, editing, and publishing company that helps new, up-and-coming young writers. Along with being a talented musician and photographer, she is also a bit of a wild card, deep of a thinker, and has taken the beaten path many times, but it is what fuels her writing and insanity. She is either a total fucking lunatic or a genius.
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