Sara Niles
AUTHOR, Activist, and MEMOIRIST in San Antonio, Texas
About Me
Sara Niles: Former Trauma Victim, Retired Professional Trainer/Counselor. Author
Excerpt: Torn From the Inside Out
Living on the Flowerbed of Eden
Thunder rattled the windowpanes two stories high, and lightning split the sky; it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. My nerves were keyed up as tight as piano strings, and in a sudden moment of stillness and silence it felt as though my heartbeat was amplified ten times over. He was over a hundred pounds greater than I, nearly a foot taller, and I knew he could move his muscled body into unbelievable sprints. Rain started falling in torrents, while the storm raged outside. I was not afraid of the storms of nature; it was the storm inside this night that I knew I might not survive.
A Memoir:
‘A Pain so Great as to Tear the Soul Inside Out’
On a sunny day in 1960, a white haired, eighty-year-old man, walked up a steep hill deep in the countryside of Southern Arkansas, and walked away with a three- and one-half year old, little dirty girl-child, riding high atop his shoulders, holding tightly onto the old man’s bald head. The little girl was scared, hungry, as always, and she had no idea of the home she was going to. The little girl had been given away by her biological mother to an elderly Great-uncle, the brother of her maternal grandmother. That little girl was Me, Sara Niles.
AUTHOR: Torn From the Inside Out, Pilot Memoir. The Journey, Out of the Maelstrom, multiple essays, short stories
- Born in 1957
- Given Away in 1960
- Married Dangerously Abusive Man 1973
- Fled for Life 1987 - 29 Years Old, 5 small children. Disappeared.
2000 B.A. PSY. followed by Graduate Studies in Behavioral Science