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The Bike Was Red: A Dream That Refused to Let Me Go
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ISBN13: 9798292404040
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Bike Was Red: A Dream That Refused to Let Me Go by Aaron M. Gartin
This isn't fiction. This isn't just a nightmare. This is prophecy. And I'm living it, one broken pedal stroke at a time.
More than a memoir. This is a scream scrawled in scars.
From the hell of a wrongful conviction to the daily grind of survival as a registered sex offender, Aaron M. Gartin rips the mask off the American justice system and lays bare the brutal cost of being branded. Add addiction, homelessness, grief, and the clawing weight of redemption-and you've got a story that doesn't just bleed... it refuses to clot.
This isn't fiction. This isn't just a nightmare. This is prophecy. And I'm living it, one broken pedal stroke at a time.
More than a memoir. This is a scream scrawled in scars.
From the hell of a wrongful conviction to the daily grind of survival as a registered sex offender, Aaron M. Gartin rips the mask off the American justice system and lays bare the brutal cost of being branded. Add addiction, homelessness, grief, and the clawing weight of redemption-and you've got a story that doesn't just bleed... it refuses to clot.
This book is not safe. It is not polite. It's the raw, unfiltered testimony of a man who should've been erased-but wasn't. It's about losing everything, including love. It's about finding something holy in a halfway house, in a woman named Molly, in a boy who calls you Monkey and says he wants your last name.
Inside you'll find:
The Bike Was Red includes full-page illustrations that act like visual scars. Nothing here is sugarcoated. Because real survival never is.
READ IF YOU DARE TO FEEL. READ IF YOU'VE BEEN BRANDED. READ IF YOU'RE STILL FUCKING HERE.
Inside you'll find:
- A red bike as prophecy-freedom, addiction, urgency
- The truth about the registry and the paper cage no one escapes
- Love that doesn't save you but makes you stay
- The war with relapse: heroin, crack, meth-and the battle to come back
- The promise to a dying woman-and the one kept after her death
- The dream that haunted him and became the map for this entire book
The Bike Was Red includes full-page illustrations that act like visual scars. Nothing here is sugarcoated. Because real survival never is.
READ IF YOU DARE TO FEEL. READ IF YOU'VE BEEN BRANDED. READ IF YOU'RE STILL FUCKING HERE.
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