The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself: A Poetry Memoir

What happens when the love story you fought for becomes the lie that breaks you?

Told through poems, letters, journal entries, and razor-sharp prose, The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself traces devotion as it turns feral-red flags dressed up as romance, silence mistaken for loyalty, endurance mistaken for love. What begins as tenderness becomes evidence: the small bargains, the swallowed words, the body's alarms explained away.

When the fantasy finally breaks, Othello follows the fracture back to its origins-abandonment, predatory attention, the hunger to be chosen-and chooses the holy terror of leaving. In the aftermath, grief is not a lesson but a landscape she must navigate, and truth arrives with a cost.

This is heartbreak with teeth. Raw, reflective, and deeply human, it's for anyone who has ever loved someone more than they loved themselves-and is finally ready to come home.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Staniella Othello
Published: 08/01/2026
ISBN: 9798234025982
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d