Jason Davis

The Little Black Book

Our story begins with a dream, not an extravagant or lavish dream, but a simple one of a nice little home, a wife, a quiet life, and a promising career in the Marines. A dream Darren once lived in but has since lost to the reality of combat trauma, Alcoholism, and what they have now coined as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). With a medical discharge, a rocky at best marriage since his return from Iraq, and a long stint of not being able to hold down any job; Darren was on a downward spiral he was unable to pull out from. He couldn’t really blame his wife for going to live with her mother. She tried, she really tried. But the screaming sleepless nights, along with everything else made it hard to cope with, nothing more than a distant dream now.