Hook: A Memoir through Letters
How do we touch the average person who doesn’t care to read books because they are too busy trying to work and survive? How can short stories address serious… More
Mother Moon
Mother Moon is bringing in the harvest / you know she grows cocaine? // Mother Moon she’s bad sometimes / she's big, she // turns the tide in every… More
Writing on Rikers
They write of homes left behind, of husbands and lovers and mothers and fathers they have disappointed or who have disappointed them, about God who gives them strength, and… More
Return to Sender
The first sentence stopped me cold: “When the assassins come they kill everyone.” More
Death by Dominoes
The maximum-security prison was a depraved place, a hermetic kingdom of the damned, haunted by its own terrible spirit. It was a hulking brute of a building, stout as… More
Solitary Confinement in California
Most people will never experience, and never really know what it is like to be isolated for many uninterrupted years. But it's like being locked in a trunk of… More
Conviction
Ben didn’t know his way out, so I’ve had to show him. And I couldn’t have done it without your help. For that, I’m not going to kill you. More
Appeals from the Senseless
I’ll flood the courts with my appeals. / I’ll complain about my prison meals. // Here’s another thing I refuse to see. / The courts are slow because of… More
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