First day without you

“It was not the ordinary morning silence – that kind holds hope. This silence was full of emptiness.” Lying with his eyes closed, perceiving a world that had lost its colours in a single second. This is how the morning begins for a man whose life’s mosaic has shattered into a thousand sharp fragments. The woman who entered his life like a sudden flash of lightning left before he could comprehend what she meant to him. All that remains is an empty chair, a scarf with its fading warmth, and a watch mercilessly ticking away the first seconds of a new, cruel reality. In his most personal confession, Brandon McYntire guides the reader along the “Trail of Memories”. It is a path full of stones, steep climbs, and rivers that can pull us deeper than we ever intended. It is a book about searching for a time machine in the little things and about learning a new “language of silence”. Can the emptiness in one’s chest find meaning again? Is it possible to walk through a world where even the sun looks foreign? Brandon McYntire offers an answer that hurts, but at the same time gives the strength to take a breath. Step by step. Tick by tock.