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Excruciate

Come, sit with me for a while, as I bear naked to you – a stranger, a lover, a friend – my soul. If you would come to know the collective sighs of my sorrow, you would hear a monstrous moaning. Let it fill your ears and filter into the core of you. Let me be known in these, my darkest hours. Like tiny filaments that expand in breadth and depth let the anguishes of my existence rest for a moment upon your flesh as my words enter your consciousness and infiltrate your bloodstream. For a moment…become me.


Poetic and visceral. Excruciate: a raw and poignant tale of betrayal. A man looks back on his adolescent love-affair and finds the truth of what actually occurred...exploitation and catastrophe.

Ashten Leverick

Ashten is a truth-teller. A speaker of the secrets that are held close to the broken-hearted. In his advancement for empowerment, he seeks to blow open the locked doors that shelter the predatory people that hide behind them; preying on the vulnerable. As a nurse and a Master Reiki Practitioner, he feels blessed to journey with people in their weakest moments. He is uplifting and hopeful and with intentions for the healing of the wounded he sets forth each day. He hopes that this book – his story – will offer catharsis to those who need it and enlightenment for those who had little or no clue of the extent of grief another soul can sorrow through. 

Austin Macauley Publishers