365 Days to take my life. The beginning

365 Days to Take My Life: The Beginning
By Dawid Bester
The Pitch
How much weight can one soul carry before it completely shatters?

At just thirteen years old, Easton's world didn't just crack-it imploded. First came the sudden, agonizing loss of his girlfriend, taking a piece of his heart with her. Before the grief could even settle, it was followed by a deeper, more suffocating trauma: losing his best friend to suicide.

Stripped of his childhood, Easton is forced onto a brutal battlefield by fifteen. Pulled out of school and isolated from the world, his home becomes a prison of endless, exhausting manual labor. Forced by his parents to work grueling, eighteen-hour shifts in a suffocating workshop, he is treated as nothing more than cheap, captive labor. He is left entirely alone to navigate a purgatory of severe depression, crippling anxiety, and a hollow, echoing isolation.

Trapped between agonizing memories of the past and a bleak, abusive present, Easton makes a cold, desperate contract with himself in a secret black notebook: He will give the universe exactly 365 days.

One year to endure the exhaustion. One year to count down the days. One year to see if he can find a reason to exist, or if the darkness finally wins.

Written with raw intensity and devastating honesty, 365 Days to Take My Life: The Beginning is a powerful, melancholic exploration of trauma, the exploitation of innocence, and the terrifying, beautiful friction that happens when a broken boy is forced to find a reason to keep breathing.

Why Readers Will Keep Turning Pages:
An Unfiltered Look at Mental Health: This story dives straight into the heavy, claustrophobic reality of survival, panic, and deep emotional pain, refusing to romanticize the difficult journey of trauma.

The Power of Connection: Follow the fragile, high-stakes bond between Easton and Maya-the neighborhood girl who dares to break through his frozen defenses, risking everything to show him he doesn't have to carry the dark