Author Note

The Cursed Ones series is built on truths—historical, emotional, and embodied. They contain depictions of trauma, abuse, gaslighting, grief, identity erasure, neurodivergence, sensory overwhelm, and systemic injustice. There has never been, and never will be, a point where the covered topics are used for clout.

While the series is rooted in Urban Fantasy and Mythological Systems, it is all too grounded in my trauma-laden, AuDHD reality. What began as a therapeutic exercise—a way to let go of the past and reclaim my present—became something larger. It became an anthem, a rallying cry for those who move through the world like me. These pages carry the weight of what was done to me, what I endured, and what I still carry.

This story is a fictional representation—but the trauma was all too real. The characters may have claws, wings, or glyfts carved into their skin—but their grief, rage, shutdowns, and longing for safety? That’s mine.

The characters aren’t just fantasy—and Wynde, is how I made sense of pain that had no language. They’re how I gave voice to the silence, shape to the fear, and power to the parts of me that were never meant to survive.

I wrote this for every abused kid who was told to sit down, shut up, don’t tell—don’t say anything. Be grateful. Smile through the fear and violence.
For every neurodivergent soul who learned to mask so well they forgot their own face. For every survivor still searching for home—in a body that hurts, with a name that doesn’t fit, longing for the quiet that never comes.

This is not a redemption arc for abusers. This is not a tidy healing story.
This is silence cracking open—the way my skin, blood, and bone did years ago.
This is taking a breath when all you want to do is to hold it.

This is hoping you don’t—but choosing to stay—to live.

If you find yourself in these pages, you are not alone.
Welcome to my story—it was always yours, too.

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