Some Ashes Never Cool

After serving 23 years in prison and a brief stay in a halfway house, a man is released into a world that has moved on without him. With no home, no job, and few options, he drifts through a life of isolation, rejection, and fading hope. Haunted by his past, including a love he couldn't save and a murder he can't undo, he struggles to find meaning in a system that offers no mercy and no second chances. As he quietly battles despair, fleeting connections, a dying relationship, and a fractured family. He doesn't find redemption or closure, only survival. But in a world that wants him forgotten, survival is its own quiet defiance.

(This is a work of fiction. "The Space Between Freedom and Falling" is nonfiction)