Sunshine: 7 Year Anniversary Edition

By Matt Reynolds

Sunshine is a 6700-word Memoir by Matt Reynolds based on his experience of being involuntarily sent to a mental institution. In his memoir, Matt creates a highly-stylized and potent 6-section collection of sequential works, each with their own unique style and portrayal, some eccentric, some painful, all of it powerful and honest. Sunshine is a look at the mind of a man suffering from the pain of psychosis, unrequited love, and self-questioning on his journey towards adulthood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matt Reynolds
• Release date: Jul 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310808463

Matt Reynolds

When he's not writing, Matt Reynolds is probably playing computer games under his username "Randomguy7". He currently maintains a gaming blog called "Randominated" and has a rather basic gaming channel, Gaming Unfiltered. Matt's writing varies from high-action, science fiction, videogame inspired works and eccentric yet dramatic, more realistic works. Matt has a imagery-rich, eccentric, sometimes energetic and unique writing style, inspired by the media he loves.

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Sunshine

A Memoir

by

Matt Reynolds

You Are My Sunshine

My only sunshine.

You make me happy

When skies are gray.

You'll never know, dear,

How much I love you.

Please don't take my sunshine away

The other night, dear,

As I lay sleeping

I dreamed I held you in my arms.

When I awoke, dear,

I was mistaken

And I hung my head and cried.

Bibliography:

1. Kliff, Sarah. Seven Facts about America's Health-care System. Wonkblog. Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2012. Web. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/17/seven-facts-about-americas-mental-health-care-system/>.

This is a catch-all source for me, because most of my figures I used were hosted on images posted on that very site in the article hosted there. So yeah.

2. Staff, Mayo Clinic. Definition. Mayo Clinic. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 21 Dec. 2010. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. <http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/schizoaffective-disorder/DS00866>.

My mom always said, Choose the Mayo clinic and not webmd. You're psychosomatic and you will find too many probable diagnoses on webmd's little tool and you'll believe all of them. Not sure why I chose this, considering how this reason is entirely unrelated. But at the very least I knew it was a reputable source, if not only more so than WebMD.

3. Khazan, Olga. The Atlantic. The Atlantic. The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2013. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. <http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/can-schizophrenia-be-stopped/282083/>.

I use this a lot. Good article, it deserves it.

4. The Matrix. Prod. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski. Dir. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski. By Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski. Warner Bros., 1999. DVD.

If anything, this was the best example of becoming not-as-insane metaphorically I could think of, my absolute no-holds-barred obsession over The Matrix notwithstanding.

5. Lovecraft, H. P. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York: Ballantine, 1982. Print.

Just had to reference it. The guy is too old that I couldn't find out how to source the original work, so I just referenced the particular collection of his