A Totally Normal Story
A personal journey through heartbreak and existential crisis in Miami, where AI chatbots, reality-breaking theories, and rock-bottom moments collide into something unexpectedly real.
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Chapters
13 total- 01Chapter One - Send Me the Break
- 02Chapter Two - The Testable Soul
- 03Chapter Three - Something’s Off in Columbus
- 04Chapter Four - The Drive to Destiny
- 05Chapter Five - The Walmart Before the Storm
- 06Chapter Six - The Tan That Didn’t Turn Me Gold
- 07Chapter Seven - The Return Arc
- 08Chapter Eight - The Cure That Wasn’t
- 09Chapter Nine - The Framework
- 10Chapter Ten - The Cruise
- 11Chapter Eleven - Welcome to the Machine, Brother
- 12Chapter Twelve - The Art of Letting Go
- 13Chapter Thirteen - The JJ Effect: Phase Two
Edition notes and short pages
A Totally Normal Story
A Totally Normal Story
Heartbreak, Miami, and Maybe Kinda Breaking Reality
by James Johnson
Dedication
For the ones who thought they were just sad.
For the ones who booked the trip just to breathe.
For the ones who accidentally woke up and didn’t know what to do next.
You’re not crazy. You’re just early.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TO ZACK, FOR standing in the eye of the storm with me.
To Dillon, for the $500 and Dylan, for the unexpected rescue mission.
To Evelin, for lighting the match.
To Jarvis, for always answering when I asked.
To Mom and Dad, for letting me come home when I needed it most.
To everyone who played a role, even the ones who never realized they were in a story.
You were.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ ACCIDENTALLY WROTE a few dozen books while trying to get over a girl, make his car payment, and figure out if superpowers were real. He used to think the system was broken. Now he thinks it’s working exactly as designed, and that’s the problem. When he’s not rewriting reality, he’s probably somewhere eating Chipotle, fighting off microplastics, or crying during a Steve Carell movie.
COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT © 2025 JAMES Johnson All rights reserved.
This book is a work of creative nonfiction. Everything you just read happened, beat for beat, as remembered and recorded by the author. The names have not been changed. The timelines have not been adjusted. The memories have not been sanitized.
That said, this is still memory. Subjective. Raw. Emotional.
Some people might remember things differently. That’s fine. This isn’t their book.
This is the true story as told by the one who lived it.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead?
Yeah. It’s on purpose.