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Please Destroy This

Please Destroy This

Ferrell, Ken

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ISBN13: 9798197927408
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A deathblow of ruins from fallen reverie. I wrote nearly every day for the next 5 years.

In 1995, following a devastating wave of catastrophic losses, deep betrayals, and paralyzing grief, author Ken Ferrell's faith in life and love collapsed around him. Seeking salvation from a world of suffocating routine and emotional noise, he turned to the written word-crafting a raw, unfiltered chronicle of a soul in mortal combat with its deepest demons.

Please Destroy This is a hauntingly beautiful collection of select letters, journals, and late-night missives written from the dizzying heights and hollow depths of those transformative years. Moving like a ghost through the rain-slicked streets and coastal hideaways of La Jolla and San Diego, Ferrell navigates intense, time-crossed romances, artistic obsessions, and the profound isolation of a dream-walker searching for a similar species in a numb world.

Part epistolary memoir, part poetic prose, this book explores:

  • The intoxicating, volatile fever of forbidden and star-crossed love.
  • Deep reflections on the traps of memory, youth, and the relentless momentum of time.
  • A fierce rebellion against the corporate, 40-hour workweek and the mundane safety of a routine life.
  • The healing-and destructive-power of music, poetry, and absolute solitude.

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