Life is never just a straight shot or black and white. Tragedy can strike at any moment, even when you feel the most in-control. I thought I had a handle of myself, until becoming the headline for a serious problem faced in today's America: domestic terrorism.

Love has a funny way of making us feel invigorated and depressed at the same time. I didn't want to do many of the things I went through, but they proceeded, reeking havoc on my shattered persona. I witnessed a first-hand account of darkness in its ugliest form and fell under its spell, succumbing to an evil I never thought possible. Who was that person? How could I be so naive when everything I did was calculated?

Readers interested in how addiction and mental health can put you in the most undesirable conditions, I share my life through the beginning, and the events leading to my incarceration, living inside the system during a global pandemic. Basketcase: The Memoir takes you inside my mind and what led me to make the choices that would later haunt me. But those choices didn't kill me. I survived to show how, even through the roughest life filled with bad decisions, you can find the right path.

Stoney is currently studying to become a freelance music producer and singer/songwriter. The hunger of his true passions never left as he sat in his cell, figuring out who he was and wanted to be. Writing has always eased the pains faced throughout life and he wishes to share his most intricate pieces with the world.