Black Trash Bags: Survival: I Should Be Dead , Instead I Wrote This (BLACK TRASHBAGS Book 1) Kindle Edition

Some lives are lived. Others are survived. In this raw and unflinching memoir, Mark Wathen takes readers inside a childhood marked by poverty, instability, and silence—where everything you owned could fit into black trash bags, and survival meant learning how to endure what couldn’t be spoken. From the streets of Owensboro, Kentucky, to the decks of U.S. Navy ships around the world, this is the story of a boy who grew up feeling like an outsider… and the man who refused to stay that way. He lived through hunger, abuse, military service, addiction, and moments where survival came down to a single decision. And yet—he kept going. Black Trash Bags is not just a story of hardship. It is a story of resilience. Because sometimes the difference between life and death… is the decision to keep going. Read more