I want to tell you
how great my life was. How I lived without regrets. With constant laughter.
Without any tears. I want to tell you how I lived each moment to the fullest.
How each breath I took was fresh and full of life. With eagerness. Without any
fear.
I want to tell you
all of that, but then my story would be masked with lies and not worth telling.
My life didn’t start
until I left my past. And I left everything. My mother, my friends, my name.
My new name, the name
everyone knows me by is Erin Lewis.
Four years after
finding the courage to leave her hometown in Alabama, Erin is finally happy
with where her life has led her. Not only is she secure in her environment, but
the relationships she has formed center her, making her forget how damaged she
once was. Before she can fully settle into her new life, her past crashes into
her present, unraveling a set of events that destroy the very foundation she has
built her new life on.
About Yessi Smith
I’m a Hispanic living in South Florida with my redneck husband from Texas and our “half breed” son, who is actually the reason I started writing again after years of celibacy. My son loves stories, but not the kind you can read in an existing book. No, he’d rather make up a story, complete with our own illustrations. So, thank you, Son, for igniting a flame I had let go out.
I also live with two dogs: a neurotic Border Collie we call Nitro and a midget Rottweiler named Nisa.
I have always found my sanctuary at the beach and in music and writing. I wish I could write rhymes so I could become a famous rapper, but rhyming is completely lost on me.
I have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s in Human Resource Management. I have held several jobs, from picking up dog crap to upper management positions. And now I am hoping to leave the business world behind so I can live full time in a world that does not exist until I place my fingers on a keyboard and bring them to fruition.
