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Tag: prisons

“Predictable Recklessness” by Ace Boggess
Fiction

“Predictable Recklessness” by Ace Boggess

July 10, 2023August 7, 20230

“When the desk guard told him to report to medical, Cobb was dressed to go, his flimsy khaki shirt tucked neatly into his khaki pants, his sneakers—the good white ones he ordered from an inmate catalogue—laced, his prisoner ID card already in hand.”
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“The Arc” by Nath Oddson
Fiction

“The Arc” by Nath Oddson

May 9, 2022May 10, 20221

From Atlanta to New York City, I went tripping, delivering packages, on buses and trains, stopping—three days—in Cincinnati. There’s the arc. Greyhound issues you an …

“Interrogative Sestina” by Mark J. Mitchell
Poetry

“Interrogative Sestina” by Mark J. Mitchell

January 21, 2022January 16, 20220

Who is the bride of August? Wheredoes she send her lost birds and whatare they born to see? You? They sing. Who,precisely, are they naming? …

“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Non-Fiction

“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

December 31, 2021December 26, 20211

The prison is like a Victorian asylum, and carefully arranged. The grounds are tastefully laid out, each tree with its own hillock of greeenery and …

“Glass” by Chariklia Martalas
Poetry

“Glass” by Chariklia Martalas

November 16, 2020November 16, 20200

Did they tell you Inferno was made from glass? Clear as truth turned upside down  You can see through to the bottom of the world  …

“Barbed Wires” by Ria Banerjee
Poetry

“Barbed Wires” by Ria Banerjee

October 14, 2019August 29, 20200

Did you, my beloved, notice the barbed wiresthat run along the length of the city,to separate you from me?Such walls of divisiveness are man-made:penetrating your …

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