Parting gesture

Parting Gesture In the June when Melanie Johnson was twenty, she moved from the little mining town in western Pennsylvania where she was born to Washington, D.C. The jobs up her way were few and[…]

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The guard

It was the wee hours of the morning in cell block D, and Jud Olson was in the middle of his second tour around tier three. All the lights were out, and it was so[…]

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Just perfect

Perfect! I thought as I walked home. It was my last school team baseball practice and from the last day of school. As I walked home to an empty house I happily thought, what more[…]

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Ebony sucker

The phone rang at the security desk. Bill put down his newspaper and looked at the clock. It was 8:10; everyone should have been gone by now. He picked up a pencil to log the[…]

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A month in hell

In the darkness of his house caused by the low 3 a.m. light and his own secrecy, Cole sat alone in his basement making sure everything was perfect for his "date" later that day. Cole[…]

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