The Jellyfather

Sometimes recovery doesn’t look like quiet strength. Sometimes it’s breaking down in laughter over a cursed jelly cube.

In Breaking Free, Damion’s journey through grief and trauma isn’t a straight line toward healing. It’s jagged, humiliating, tender, and raw. But in the middle of the pain, he and Viri stumble into a ridiculous story about “Gelée Druids” and their sacred cult leader, The Jellyfather. For a moment, grief gives way to laughter, and laughter makes space for hope.

Because healing isn’t just tears and solemn reflection. Sometimes the thing that keeps you afloat is a joke so absurd it leaves your stomach hurting and your face aching from smiling.

Breaking Free is part of the Breaking series: dark fantasy sagas about survival, recovery, and what it means to rebuild a self when everything has been stripped away.

The Fifth Day of Damion's freedom has been published.