The Light I see at the end of the Tunnel turns out to be a Freight Train Overwhelmed

by Ned Vizzini

I'm writing and writing. About others, about nonsense, so i can forget about myself. I know I live in my head. I talk to myself. That only started recently. I haven't left the apartment in three months. I haven't showered in nine days. The restaurants I get my food from don't take the time anymore to do a good job. They are taking liberties, because I'm a nice guy. I don't complain. Timid I am. For what is a man who kneels and doesn't say how he feels. Not much of a man. Why was I born? What were they thinking creating me? They were doing me a favour? You should have gotten a cat and left me alone. Leave me alone.

27 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 21, 2013

About the author

Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.

After he wrote an essay that got published by the New York Times Magazine, several of his essays about his young adult life ended up being combined into his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah.... Vizzini attended Hunter College, also located in Manhattan. Ned Vizzini lived in New York City. Vizzini's characters and situations are said be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant.