The Book of Woe

The Book of Woe: Remastered

Autofiction by Vincent Poe

“Where words outlive the wound.”

For anyone with PTSD.

You are not broken.

You are responding.

A Note to the Reader

This book is autofiction — a prose narrative built from real events, real cities, real notebooks, real nights.

The third person is not evasion. It is the only distance that allowed the author to see himself clearly enough to describe what he was seeing.

Read this like motion, not conclusion. Not every page is a lesson. Some are symptoms. Some are survival. Some are the moment right before the break.

This book is not here to prove anything. It is here to show what it feels like.

Read the Book

Prologue

• Prologue: The Story Behind the Words
• The Red Dictionary
• The House on Ainsley Drive
• The Library Where It Began
• The Night I Left
• The Years In Between
• Mina
• Franklin Street
• The Exit
• Portland — Never Seen, But Always Heard
• The Man Today
• The Story Is Still Being Written

Part I — Before Everything Broke

• The Notebook
• Holyoke
• What He Carries
• The Reading
• The Body
• Three Names
• The First Reading
• Freedom
• The Archive
• Before the Break

Part II — What the World Did to Him

• People
• Places
• Things
• August 29
• Spectrum News
• What They Called It
• The Long Tail
• Building

Part III — The Hardest Part

• The Edge
• Rage
• Attack, Documented
• September 20
• The Night
• Still Fighting

Part IV — What Remains

• Still Here
• What He Built
• The Cats
• The Platform
• Dinner
• October
• The Forty-Fourth
• What Remains
• Closing
• About the Author

© 2026 Vincent Enrico Magnani. Published by Enrico Port.