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The Sky Was my Ceiling: Book One of The In-Between Chronicles
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ISBN13: 9798253128985
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I died before I ever woke up.
Not in the poetic sense-literally. One moment I was here, the next I was watching my own body from somewhere in-between, listening to doctors prepare to call my time of death... until a voice I couldn't see said, No. Wait. When I came back, nothing made sense.
My body didn't work.
Not in the poetic sense-literally. One moment I was here, the next I was watching my own body from somewhere in-between, listening to doctors prepare to call my time of death... until a voice I couldn't see said, No. Wait. When I came back, nothing made sense.
My body didn't work.
My mind was fogged.
My spine had been cut open.
My right side was paralyzed.
And I had no memory of how I got there. What followed was a fight I never asked for:
learning to move again, learning to speak again, learning to survive inside a body that no longer felt like mine. Nurses held me up when I couldn't stand. Doctors called me a miracle when I didn't feel like one. And strangers became the only family I had left.
But survival wasn't the end of the story.
It was only the beginning.
From the hospital hallways to an assisted living facility, from a cubby with trash-bag walls to a Greyhound bus that left me behind in -11 degrees, this is the true story of what it takes to come back from the edge-twice. Raw, unfiltered, darkly funny, and spiritually charged, The Sky Was My Ceiling is Book One of The In-Between Chronicles, a memoir series about trauma, resilience, and the strange, sacred space between life and death.
If you've ever survived something you shouldn't have...
If you've ever had to rebuild yourself from the inside out...
If you've ever wondered what happens in the moments between here and gone... This story is for you.
My spine had been cut open.
My right side was paralyzed.
And I had no memory of how I got there. What followed was a fight I never asked for:
learning to move again, learning to speak again, learning to survive inside a body that no longer felt like mine. Nurses held me up when I couldn't stand. Doctors called me a miracle when I didn't feel like one. And strangers became the only family I had left.
But survival wasn't the end of the story.
It was only the beginning.
From the hospital hallways to an assisted living facility, from a cubby with trash-bag walls to a Greyhound bus that left me behind in -11 degrees, this is the true story of what it takes to come back from the edge-twice. Raw, unfiltered, darkly funny, and spiritually charged, The Sky Was My Ceiling is Book One of The In-Between Chronicles, a memoir series about trauma, resilience, and the strange, sacred space between life and death.
If you've ever survived something you shouldn't have...
If you've ever had to rebuild yourself from the inside out...
If you've ever wondered what happens in the moments between here and gone... This story is for you.
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