Good Old Days
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy J. Michael Stanfield Jr.Autumn takes me back in time. In the beginning, anyway, when the dry, lukewarm days of fall first replace the humid,...
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Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Anthony S. EnglesWild Turkey and Broken GlassJuly 30, 1983The tarnished silver bell above the thick glass door heralded the arrival of Washington...
View ArticleWorld War I and Prohibition and the Birth of Jazz
By Denver I.In 1897, there was mass chaos down in New Orleans in the year of 1897. The wild rowdy city was a melting pot of ethnicity and commerce. Frenchmen, Creoles, West Indians, Spaniards, Blacks,...
View ArticleSixty-six and Counting...On Justice Reform
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Isaac SweetShe is a sixty-six year old, cancer-surviving, type-two diabetic. She is also the World's Greatest Mom. As a young woman she put aside...
View ArticleA Passage
Page 258 of Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. Dedicated to the memory of Christopher Wilkins, executed by the State of Texas on January 11, 2017
View ArticleTime to Dance the Thirteenth Step
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Jeff C.1. Thirteenth Step: Call an Optimist, He’s Turning BlueWhen you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who...
View ArticleDreaming of Oxen
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixA novel of the '60s by Burl N. Corbett(Copyright 2016)"If an ox herder were to take opium, he should dream of oxen." From The Confessions of an...
View ArticleEntering the Hall of Remembrance
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Mathew AhoMy Grandfather is the glue that holds our family together. He raised three daughters, but was never given the son he wanted. Ironically,...
View ArticleNo Mercy For Dogs Chapter 20
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View ArticleA Thank You To The Tried And True Who Got Me Through
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Santonio D. MurffI sprang out of bed in mid-November with a joyous spirit! I threw a combination of punches and did a bobbing and weaving,...
View ArticleDid the Death Penalty Die with Justice Scalia?
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Michael LambrixCall it a twist of irony that I'd like to think would have made the ornery old bastard smile, but within hours of my own scheduled...
View ArticleAn Excerpt from Control Units and Supermaxes: A National Security Threat
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Joseph Rodney Dole IIHISTORYIn 2007, the International Psychological Trauma Symposium was held in Istanbul, Turkey. It adopted “The Istanbul...
View ArticleThe Rain is Free Only in Falling
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before Six“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see...
View ArticleA Fatherless Child: “Dear Dad….”
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Michael "Yasir" Belt“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a...
View ArticleThe Coloring Contest
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Samuel HawkinsI can't believe that I am writing this. It is shameful to me, that where I live, what was once called prison is having a “coloring...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Wrongful Conviction - Day Seven (Update)
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Thomas Bartlett WhitakerTo read Days One -Six, click hereLet us say that you have stolen a valuable piece of art. Yes, yes, 1 know: you are a good...
View ArticleMusings
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Michael Wayne HunterAs one gets older, and I´m nearing sixty, you start to reflect on the past while relentlessly marching toward entropy.Like a...
View ArticleThe Escape Hatch Below My Bunk: How Board-, Card-, and Role-Playing Games...
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Rosendo Rodriguez III“Es-cap‘ism, n. the avoidance of reality by absorption of the mind in entertainment or fantasy.”-Webster's DictionaryWe...
View ArticleThe Addict Speaks: My Long Road to Recovery
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Christian WeaverWhen I say that getting high was my first true love, I´m not just using an expression. My earliest memory from age four, is of...
View ArticleForever Young
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Craig B. HarveySay world, as you can see, I'm back working my pen. My goal this year is to write more. I was motivated to do so when, while doing...
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