4 Years Trapped on Your Mind Palace

By: Johan Twiss

Diagnosed with a rare form of meningitis, fourteen-year-old Aaron Greenburg is paralyzed from head to toe. Doctors believe he is essentially brain dead and unaware of his surroundings, but Aaron is very much aware—trapped in his own mind with no way to communicate. To cope with his imprisonment, he retreats to an imaginary world called his Mind Palace, but the lines between reality start to blur when he receives a new patient as a roommate—an old, outspoken, Jewish jazz musician, named Solomon.