Walls (an excerpt)
On the other side of the world, thirty years after Billy died in Vietnam, Brophy lay face down the grass of another valley as bullets hit the ground nearby.… More
The Glove Compartment
For everyone in else in my family, the realization came gradually: a gesture here, a phrase there eventually added up to what they had seen all along but had… More
The Last Run (An Excerpt)
Louis Gentry stood outside Kings County Hospital. His new shoes killing him. A forty-five year old ex-con with a limp in his left leg—a nerve severed by a shiv… More
Walker’s Requiem
I could see myself in the dark mahogany coffin. How I had gotten there and why was something I couldn't remember. I could hear the hum of an organ… More
Recipe For Prison Pruno
Take ten peeled oranges,Jarvis Masters, it is the judgment and sentence of this court,one 8 oz. bowl of fruit cocktail,that the charged information was true,squeeze the fruit into a… More
PEN welcomes developments in prison writing suit, workshop suspension
Assurances that Connecticut's Department of Corrections will continue Wally Lamb's Creative Writing Program at the York Correctional Institution and that the State of Connecticut will soon announce a successful… More
‘Doing Time’
We've seen it all already, and it has been real enough, the cellblock riots, the black majority, what goes on inside prison walls. We've heard the clang of the… More
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