PRISM OF A LIFE
PRISM 01
Prism 01

Survival

I have nearly died more than once. The stranger story is what happened every time I woke up.

Scroll Into the Stories
Through This Prism

One life,
seen through survival.

These are the pieces of my story that pass through this color. Some belong here completely. Others touch several prisms at once. Together they reveal one angle of a life that has never fit neatly inside a single story.

5 EssaysAnd Growing
Survival

Essays Through This Prism

Survival12 MIN READ

The Day My Body Went Silent

My last steps looked almost like dancing. There was no one there to see them. No music was playing in the kitchen. I was simply doing something I had done hundreds of times before, sliding my feet across the cool tile...

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Survival11 MIN READ

When The City Was Mine - Part Two

By the time Indianapolis became my playground, Lighthouse Mission had become the place where I returned every night. It was where I slept, showered, kept my duffel bag and learned the peculiar choreography of living i...

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Survival12 MIN READ

When The City Was Mine - Part One

In the summer of 2006, everything I owned fit inside a duffel bag, and every night I slept with my head on top of it. I was staying at Lighthouse Mission in downtown Indianapolis with roughly two hundred other men. Ab...

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Keep Following the Light

There are eleven other ways into the story.

Return to the spectrum and choose another prism, or step into the complete archive and follow the stories wherever they lead.