A young skateboarder reflects on the complexities of his perception. Starting from his childhood, he meanders through distant memories, wondering what led him to become a skateboarder. He questions everything in the world around him, all the while he is both confused and thrilled by writing it all down. What begins as a memoir soon begins to share the experience of skateboarders as a whole. We are quickly introduced to the dreamscape that is the mind of the skateboarder, both tormented and in awe of the individual experience that allows the skateboarding culture to exist. Everytime we expect...

In this seven year anthology of prose and poetry written between 2009-2016, our narrator, Damien Burden (author of "CYST"), carries us through the adverse reality of growing up in a post 9/11 America driven by capitalism and systemic oppression. Burden, who began writing at the age of thirteen while sentenced to a high security prison for juveniles, takes us through his deeply philosophical ethos of adolescence and early adulthood. Through his esoteric approach, we're introduced to an intellect and spirit unrivaled by relentless tragedy, endlessly analytical as he prophesies and flys above...