📰It Ended By Beginning: a 32 short story collection
🗣️Announcing my first short story collection: It Ended By Beginning
There’s a certain silence that settles in your chest when you finish something that cost you pieces of yourself to create. Not because it’s over. But because you now have to share it. Because when something comes from the most personal place inside you, it never truly ends. It just waits for someone else to pick it up and feel it.
📆Today, I’m sharing that silence with you.
Today, It Ended By Beginning is available on my website.
A 32-story short fiction collection. A truth-teller. A mirror. A storm. A surrender.
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This collection didn’t begin with fiction. It began with pain.
It began with the kind of pain you try to reason with. The kind you try to dress up, hide under ambition, bury beneath checklists and deadlines. But no matter how good you get at smiling through it, it waits. In the quiet. In the background. Until one day, it writes itself out of you.
🖤This collection was born from that, truths I couldn't say aloud but needed to see on paper. And so, I let them come. Not as essays or journal entries, but as characters. People who looked nothing like me, and yet felt everything I did. People who were flawed, selfish, brave, broken, manipulative, loyal, violent, terrified, or numb. People who could ruin lives in three sentences and then quietly ask for forgiveness without ever saying the word.
These 32 stories aren’t pretty. They're not meant to be.
They are not tidy or kind or comfortably resolved.
They are what it means to feel.
They are what it means to look at pain and not flinch.
💔Who this collection is for
It’s for the person who’s never been able to fully explain the damage someone did to them.
It’s for the person who’s said, “I’m fine,” too many times, and no longer believes it.
It’s for the person who still feels like they’re carrying around pieces of the people they tried to forget.
It’s for the person who wonders if the trauma they inherited will become the trauma they leave behind.
It’s for you, if you’ve ever needed a story to scream what you couldn’t.
Because It Ended By Beginning isn’t a book to comfort you. It’s a book to make you confront yourself with honesty, with clarity, and maybe with a little more grace than you’ve given yourself before.
The truth behind the title
It Ended By Beginning.
It sounds backwards, right?
But it’s not.
This is what happens when we trace the end of something we thought we understood, only to find out it started long before us. That what we thought was the final chapter… was actually the prologue. That trauma has a bloodline. That pain is taught. That stories don’t end just because we say they do.
Some of the characters in these stories believed they were the ending.
But they weren’t.
They were just continuing a cycle someone else began.
And some of them… finally chose to be the break in that cycle.
The first crack in the glass. The whisper that says, “No more.”
That’s what the title means. The end is never the end. It’s the beginning of something else.
🚪The man behind the press: Story #32
I’ll tell you a secret.
The final story in this book, Printed Hell, isn’t really fiction.
Sure, the character is a fictional journalist. Sure, he runs a small newspaper by himself and travels to tell the stories no one else bothers to.
But really?
He’s me.
And he’s this book.
He’s tired, but still passionate.
He’s seen things that broke him, but he kept reporting anyway.
He’s shutting the doors soon, but not before publishing one last thing he knows matters.
That story is the book itself.
And he’s the reflection of what it means to write something like this-alone, deeply, fully, and knowing it may never be understood the way it was meant.
But he writes it anyway.
Because someone will.
A glimpse into the stories
Every story stands on its own. But together, they tell a larger truth. A layered one. A hard one.
Here’s just a glimpse:
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The Wolf Is a Lamb: A well-loved teacher is falsely accused by a student trying to impress her friends. His life is shattered and the truth comes too late.
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Drowning From Another: A girl is pushed to her death by the one who called her best friend. Envy disguised as sisterhood. Lies that live louder than grief.
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It Ended With Them: A generational cycle of trauma goes unbroken for too long. And then one child dares to ask: “What if I end it?”
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Judgement for Each Day: A manipulator convinces himself he’s the victim, using charm and deceit to rewrite the past and trap others in it.
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Irreversible Temptations: A friendship is destroyed by a single betrayal that could’ve been avoided, but wasn’t. Because desire was louder than love.
And 27 others just as raw.
Each one a punch to the gut.
Each one a whisper of truth you may not want to hear, but won’t forget once you do.
Why I chose to publish it myself 🕯️
I didn’t want to hand this over to someone else to polish the pain out of it.
This collection wasn’t meant to fit inside the lines of traditional publishing.
It’s meant to bleed.
That’s why I created my own company. My own platform. My own space to tell these stories exactly the way they needed to be told.
No filters.
No softening.
No pacing changes because “the market prefers this.”
No removal of sentences because they’re “too uncomfortable.”
If it made me squirm, I kept it.
If it felt too real, I knew it belonged.
If it hurt to write, I leaned in.
That’s the kind of book It Ended By Beginning is.
And I’m proud of that.
For the storytellers who never got to speak
This isn’t just a book. It’s a voice.
For the people who were never given one.
For the ones who were told their stories were “too much,” “too personal,” “too dark.”
For the ones who stayed silent while the world misremembered them.
For the ones who told the truth and paid for it.
For the ones who never got to tell theirs at all.
This book remembers them.
It prints them.
It raises hell for them.
📖If you choose to read it…
Read it slowly.
Don’t rush through it like a checklist.
Don’t skim the endings to see if anyone gets what they deserve.
Sit with it. Let it speak.
These are stories that deserve your full attention, even when they sting.
And if something in one of them feels a little too close to your own experience…
Let it.
That’s not a flaw. That’s the point.
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