A Trembling Mind

By TK Charles

A Trembling Mind guides readers through an aspiring author's quaking thoughts from his writing roost in a Chinese Restaurant, Wellington, New Zealand.
TK Charles is our author and narrator. He was a former division one athlete, Fortune 500 employee and presently a confidence diminished twenty something trying to find his way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TK Charles
• Release date: Jul 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301295210

TK Charles

TK Charles is an author living in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a former NCAA Division One athlete and Fortune 500 employee. He quit his job and sold all his possessions to move to New Zealand to write. He now resides in Hawaii and continues to write and learn the craft. Please support his quest to become a recognized author by purchasing one of his books or stories.

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A Trembling Mind

By TK Charles

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A Trembling Mind

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This book is a memoir. All information following is the truth.

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It’s a new day my friend. You're far less intoxicated now. Sitting in Tastes and Smells Chinese Take Out and Dine In. Cross eyed smiley face licking his lips is the logo. A strange place indeed.

They have BYO though. Bring Your Own for the abbreviation illiterate. Expected cheap prices, but like everything else in New Zealand I'm being raped. Sixteen dollar spicey chicken cashew. No rice, rice, two dollar extra.

Why did you just use the South Park Shitty Wok Chinese accent? Extra chicken? Three dolla!

You're a fool for that. What are you doing here anyway? You just moved into an apartment that actually has furniture. What are you afraid of? The roommate? You little pussy. She seems like a nice enough lady.

I honestly don't know what the issue is with the place. It feels uncomfortable. Unaccepting. But it’s so relaxed. So...accepting.

Art, colorful blankets, surf boards, photos. It seems so perfect yet I feel so strange there. I'm entering another person's environment. Nothing there is my own. It isn't my place to create. I'm being accepted into her world. I've never been in that situation before. It is all hers.

You have been in that situation before. You moved from 18th in Des Moines to High Street with the crew.

They were there well before you. You entered their space just fine.

Well, I knew them. I knew Nate and AO. Jas was just a big fool. Drunk and gambling a majority of the time. How could he make anyone feel uncomfortable? How could someone that far