A Confluence of Unfortunate Occurrences
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. Standing there with my bruises and torn boxer shorts, I felt the unwarranted shame of a victim, as if I had somehow done something to...
View ArticleStir Crazy
“I can’t take it anymore! Gotta get outta here!” Winn’s voice screeched and cracked as he lost control. His face was twisted and distorted as he pressed it against the small rectangular pane of...
View ArticlePuddle of Blood
When I first saw him lying there with his eyes open and emptied of all their light, I felt certain he was dead. No Luck I’d been in and out of the building all day—work, healthcare, work, chow, work....
View ArticleUncommon Compassion
“C’mon, quick; Tee needs you.” I was mid-conversation with someone, but left him immediately without a word of explanation or apology. Tee was my cellie, my buddy. There was an urgency and seriousness...
View ArticleBrutally Efficient
My cellie and I had been together a week already and had long ago exhausted all the superficial topics of discussion available to us. With our only common ground being prison, all that was left for us...
View ArticleFun with Sunstroke
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. I lay there on my sticky mat and tried not to move. My body was emanating more heat than an Easy Bake Oven as my cellie retched out...
View ArticleTeddy Bear Throwdown
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. As I watched the two of them pummel each other, with teeth bared in some feral display of rage and dominance, my fellow inmates and I...
View ArticleThe Fastidious Squirrel
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. Even before I saw him in action and discovered his proclivities for food storage, he first reminded me of a nerdy rodent in a...
View ArticleManscaping in Prison
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. This package must be handled with care. There I stood, stark naked, perched on one foot with the other planted waist-high against the...
View ArticleArts and Crafts
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. The first time that Cee asked for the plastic wrapper that encased my cookie, I thought he wanted my cookie in its entirety, like he...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Violence
There was a bestial savagery to the beating, unsettling and primal, yet I couldn’t look away. My stomach twisted, turned, and churned as his fist smashed the man’s head and blood began to flow. Still,...
View ArticleAthlete’s Crotch
One time I had a particularly vicious itch that wouldn’t go away, and I didn’t know why. All I knew was that the affected area was extraordinarily itchy and an angry shade of red. Being that it was in...
View ArticleThe Misguided Germaphobe
I am not a medical professional, but I have heard it said that cold killsverb 1. to end the life of another person 2. to work a muscle or muscle group to exhaustion during weightlifting. (I killed...
View ArticlePoor Gordie
The angry, wet sound of his violent regurgitation still reverberates through the finite space of my mind the same way it bounced around the confined space of our cell. === His hair was shortadj 1. to...
View ArticleA Chemical Imbalance
This week’s post is an excerpt from Candy and Blood. Available on Amazon.com now. Blood and feces mixed in a sticky mess across the floor and against the thinly padded walls. The pungent aroma was...
View ArticleAn Indelible Impression
When I first met Mark, he wasn’t particularly impressive. He didn’t make a strong or indelible impression on me. He was like a lot of white guys in their late thirties and early forties who I’d come...
View ArticleAn Itchy Situation
This was an itch I could scratch, but there were consequences to the scratching. I tore at my inflamed flesh, but the intense burning only increased and spread. Despite this, I still didn’t stop. The...
View ArticleShorty and the Milk Man
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. Since he always went by his street namenoun: a nickname used while running the streets. Often, but not exclusively, given as part of...
View ArticleNo Talk
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. Standing just two and a half feet away, my new cellienoun 1:the person or people with whom you share a cell 2: the man, or men, whose...
View ArticleBittersweet Dreams
This excerpt is from Candy and Blood, available on Amazon.com now. I awoke in the darkness, pitch-black shroud of night pressed against my chest with an unnatural weight. A hard, heavy throbbing in my...
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