title: The Sky Is Falling: A dark but vivid glimpse into a life of Dissociation, Self-Injury, and Incest through the mind of an adolescent.
author: Leslie Sanders
description: <i>This book was written for entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be used as a mental health resource. The information in the back matter of the book is there to assist those with questions or concerns into finding the appropriate help they need. Certain definitions may not be the complete or full definition of the word but is accurate according to the author's sources.By no meansisthe back matter information or any part of the bookintended to offend persons with mental disorders.</i>
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  MY TERRIFYING ANGELS
  
  If an unwanted pregnancy was the “abyss” that an intrepid girl could fall
  into—the abyss word was my mother’s, though I’ll bet she’d heard it first from
  fucking Muriel—surely the abyss for a boy like me was to succumb to homosexual
  activity. In such love lay madness; in acting out my most dire imaginings, I
  would certainly descend to the bottomless pit of the universe of desire. Or so
  I believed in the fall of my senior year at Favorite River Academy, when I
  once more ventured to the First Sister Public Library—this time, I thought, to
  save myself. I was eighteen, but my sexual misgivings were innumerable; my
  self-hatred was huge.
  
  If you were, like me, at an all-boys’ boarding school in the fall of 1960, you
  felt utterly alone—you trusted no one, least of all another boy your age—and
  you loathed yourself. I’d always been lonely, but self-hatred is worse than
  loneliness.
  
  With Elaine starting her new life at Northfield, I was sp