SPASH flagship Offering
My Version
of Events.
Literary nonfiction about the lives we inherit and the selves we reclaim.
“At first, I believed I was writing my way back to myself – to an earlier confidence, a familiar worldview, a version of life that existed before loss. But grief was not restorative in that way. It did not return me to who I was. It rewrote me.”
The work
A story is never
just what happened.
It is also what we inherited, what we believed, what we carried — and what we eventually learn to see differently.
My Version of Events moves through three movements: The Breaking, The Burning and The Breathing. Each opens a different door into the stories we tell ourselves and the selves we become.
Inside the book
Three movements.
One evolving self.
Tap a card to turn it over and discover the essays held within.
Movement I
The Breaking
Who was I before I understood what was happening to me?
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Movement I · The Breaking
Essays
The Little Girl in a Polka Dot Dress ◆ Why I am the Shebeen Princess
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Movement II
The Burning
What stories did I tell myself in order to survive what happened?
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Movement II · The Burning
Essays
Midlife Dilemma ◆ The Return Soldier ◆ Stranger in My Mirror ◆ I Don’t Just Break Hearts; I Dismantle Souls ◆ The Morning After the Dream Died ◆ Doctor, Please Give My Dad Some Water! ◆ The Promise
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Movement III
The Breathing
What remains true when the story softens?
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Movement III · The Breathing
Essays
Too Dark to Disappear ◆ To The Boy Who Broke Me Open ◆ Persephone: Mission 13 ◆ The Mountain That Refused Us ◆ The Death and Rebirth of a Strong Black Woman ◆ Rewilding the Domesticated Mindset ◆ Why I Stopped Calling Myself a Feminist ◆ The Social Contracts I am Quietly Burning ◆ The Balcony Scene of My Own Stripped ◆ Naked in the Cold Dancing Around Mortality
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First encounter
Before the words,
there is the vessel.
The hero trailer offers an encounter with the world of My Version of Events. It does not explain the metaphor. It leaves a question open.
My Version of Events: Movements
From the pages
Essay releases
Three essays. Three windows into the same body of work.
01 / The Breaking
Why I Am the Shebeen Princess
A childhood rhythm. A turn that doesn’t come easily. A story not yet finished.
Film & essay coming soon
02 / The Burning
Doctor, Please Give My Dad Some Water!
A small request, a long wait, and the moment one person hears another.
Film & essay coming soon
03 / The Breathing
The Social Contracts I Am Quietly Burning
The invisible terms we live by — and the question of what we owe them.
Film & essay coming soon
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