This photo was taken in the village of Ayod during the Sudan famine crisis, the picture depicts a small, starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture. The photograph earned Kevin Carter a Nobel Prize in 1994. He committed suicide that same year. He left this note.

“I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”

There are things in this life that a man should never see or experience because their memory burns a hole through the soul that time can never heal.

Their words bathed in tears of emotional pain, writers often offer a glimpse into the hole. They cope by sharing. Their stories are more than literary outbursts of imagination. They are an intricate matrix of existence that borders on the spiritual.