No Safe Place. Discharge - Episode 1

She came back from war. The real battle was waiting at home.

No Safe Place – Episode One: Discharge By Riley Dakota
Approx. 25,000 words (about 100 pages)

I wrote this on borrowed time. On the edge of the world.
In shelters. In silence. In pain.
This is fiction. Or nonfiction. Or whatever the hell you need it to be. - Riley

From a battlefield in Afghanistan to the broken streets of Los Angeles—this is how survival actually looks.

Riley Dakota is a combat vet. A mother-to-be. Homeless. Unfiltered. And one wrong breath away from breaking.

There’s no welcome home. No medals that matter. Just flashbacks, fear, and a man she loves slowly slipping back into heroin.

That’s when she realizes: the war didn’t end - it just changed uniforms.

Told in razor-sharp, episodic fragments, No Safe Place is not your feel-good redemption arc. It’s a literary gut-punch about PTSD, poverty, addiction, and what it really takes to keep going when the system wants you gone.

Read it. Feel it. Share it. If this story moves you - help Riley tell the rest.