With a wish to write since a young age, Shannon's talent glowed. Writing was an effortless task with her ability. With ease, she became a renowned author. However, not all was sunshine and rainbows. Behind her success, her fight with mental illness had her life in shambles. Even the simplest of tasks were like scaling the highest walls. The war of attrition between her thoughts and the not so little voice in her head rages on each day. A crippling depression strikes as she feels the walls closing in around her. The words she once found flying across the paper now stagnated to a crawl. The scales of her battle shifted, and she found herself more and more willing... to believe the not so little voice.