NONFICTION    MEMOIRS ESSAYS &  FICTION

Literary Narrative Nonfiction: Over fifteen years in the making in order to "Tell a tale so great, as to tear the soul inside out" Sara Niles     

Torn From the Inside Out

Sara Niles

Chapter One

“Thunder rattled the windowpanes two stories high and lightning split the sky, it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. My nerves were keyed up as tight as piano strings and in a sudden moment of stillness and silence it felt as though my heartbeat was amplified ten times over. He was over a hundred pounds greater than I; nearly a foot taller and I knew he could move his muscled body into unbelievable sprints. Rain started falling in torrents, while the storm raged outside. I was not afraid of the storms of nature; it was the storm inside this night that I knew I might not survive”

…February 13^th, 1987, the night of Sara Niles’ flight with her five small children.

TAGS: Domestic Violence, Memoir, Abuse, True Story, Women, Family, Children, Domestic Abuse, Saga, Trilogy,Generational Dysfunction, Domestic Violence Homicide, Victim, Survivors, Human Spirit, Hope, Sara Niles

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The Torn Trilogy

The Torn Trilogy Chaplets

Torn From the Inside Out

The Journey

Out of the Maelstrom

The Face of Dysfunction

In Search of Peace and Happiness

TAGS: family saga, family drama, domestic violence, domestic abuse, domestic homicide, children who witness abuse, family dysfunction, memoir, trilogy, nonfiction, homicide, domestic violence shelter, battered women, inspirational books, suicide,  mental illness, substance abuse,US history, nonfiction, Sara Niles

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FICTION

RAVEN'S EVE

Beautiful Raven Temple is a nineteen year-old college student intent on forgetting her traumatic background and living normally when she discovers secrets that changes her whole world and permanently sets her course in life. Born to wealthy parents who were brutally murdered when she was six years old, Raven fights to ward off all memories of that night but when night terrors become so strong that she can no longer ward them off, she seeks out the wisdom of her grandmother only to discover more than she ever wanted to know.     

The adventures of Raven Templeton will eventually take her across three continents and bring her into contact with  powerful and dangerous people before she finds the answers she seeks.

Tags: mystery, suspense, intrigue, danger, murder, drugs, family, new fiction, trilogy, Sara Niles

 

 Blue Magic

  Lost In Time

Ashanti

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 "Great Art is born from the inner passions of the Artist, bred from deep within the creative vision of the rare individual who comes along only a few times per century. Ashanti the Artist possesses the originality that marks a great artist, along with the masterful skills of realism similar to that of William Morris Hunt of the late 1800’s and the creative surrealism of Salvador Dali, whose innovative approach dominated the 1930’s"

Excerpted from Ashanti The Artist

By

Josephine Thompson

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Family Dysfunction

Excerpt from

The Face of Dysfunction

Sara Niles

Healthy families beget healthy families and sick families beget families with many of the same sick dysfunctions that they experienced as children. Young boys and girls whose family role models were womanizers or man-users usually womanize or abuse and dispose of men, those whose models drank, usually have a substance abuse problem and those who grew up with hurt, pain and abuse usually inflict it upon their families in the same measure, over fifty percent of the time, or they may invariably find a partner who inflicts pain upon them. There are a rare few who escape this repetitive cycle, even though they were raised in it, but they are the exception. Many will marry the negative image of their parent or their opposite in an attempt to recreate what 'love' felt like and looked like to them as a child.

....No matter how the child interprets it, when the family model is corrupted then the copy is corrupted." 

TAGS: abuse, family model, dysfunction, negative image, love, children, family health, family dysfunction, The Face of Dysfunction, Sara Niles