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Death Row: The Ninth Ring
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Michael LambrixFew books I´ve read over the many years I’ve spent in solitary confinement on Florida´s infamous “death row” have had more impact...
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This Friendship Has Been Terminated
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Timothy PauleyCommotion is the nature of the visiting room, but I could tell this was different. A particularly abusive prison guard had just...
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The Face Of Justice?
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Robert PruettIn life we sometimes meet people who leave indelible impressions on us, whose faces we'd recognize in a crowd regardless of how long...
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Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Frank RossJim Buck parked his car a block from the Silver Banjo Tavern. The sun had slipped behind those westward hills, and a warm autumn breeze...
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Several Harsh Sentences, Written Consecutively
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Wesley AtkinsonFor as long as I can remember, I have lived a double life. If I were to go missing, my mother might describe me to authorities as a...
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The Magic Lantern Chapter Two
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Anthony EnglesTo read Chapter One, click hereSquare OneColleen sat with her arms crossed in front of her, lips pressed tightly together as she...
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The Struggle
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBill Van Poyck was executed by the state of Florida on June 12, 2013. This story was submitted by his loving sister, Lisa, and we consider it a...
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The Mad Dog a Mighty Messenger
By Reinaldo DennesThe first time I met a skinhead was about eight years ago. Tattoos decorated his body. AK-47s. Skulls. Swastikas, and this is just on his bald head. The rest of his body was graffiti,...
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Mad Man
By Jeremiah BourgeoisLife has been far more stressful than I’d realized as I move towards the possibility of parole. After recently having what appear to be several psychosomatic seizures over a...
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Dear Blue Skies
By Chris DankovichDear Jennifer Wherever You Are,I don't know if you remember me, or the day we met. It was over three years ago, but I find myself thinking more and more about it as the days languish....
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No Mercy For Dogs Chapter 21
By Thomas Bartlett WhitakerTo read Chapter 20, click hereThere's nothing like an ending to reveal the incompleteness of things. The Hammer sent me into the shadow of the mountain to disappear, but when...
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S#!t Happens
By Michael LidelFlying. That's what riding the bus felt like. Sailing over the cars and the people below the rise of the bus windows gave me power. I rode the clouds in my mind toward the sun,...
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Dreaming of Oxen Chapter Two
By Burl N. CorbettTo read Chapter One, click hereThe Three G'sIn many respects, it was still the Fifties in Little Italy. And that version of the Fifties wasn't a hell of a lot different than the...
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Timmy
By Arthur LongworthTimmy`s a mess. If he were free, you`d call him developmentally-disabled and allot him a certain amount of consideration. But he`s not free, so no one does.Timmy lives in front of...
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Single No More
By Mwandishi MitchellAt times in life we are all tested and sometimes expected to make changes however terrible they may seem to be. Recently I've had such a test, and it's up to you to decide whether...
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Abolish Long-Term Solitary Confinement: It's a Threat to the Public
By Joseph DoleI have a very intimate understanding of the effects of long-term isolation on a person´s mental and physical health. An entire decade of my life was spent involuntarily entombed in...
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Dark Magic
By John SextonWilliam Butler Yeats said that “…the world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” I doubt the Irish wordsmith was thinking about someone’s...
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Why the Butterflies Must Die
By Michael LambrixJune 2017Whenever the cold walls of my solitary cell begin to close in around me, I try to get my head out of this place by throwing in my ear buds and listening to my little MP3...
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A Fostered Neglect Part II
By Jedidiah MurphyMy initial goal when I started this project was to shed some light on Foster Care, in the state of Texas and throughout the country. Having been a part of it myself and having my...
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The Magic Lantern Chapter Three
By Anthony EnglesTo read Chapter Two, click hereKimbaGround shaking heavy-metal, the smell of gasoline fumes and spilled beer mixed with the coppery taste of blood. Then, the nauseating stimuli swirled...
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