Ricardo was 27 and had spent a third of his life in custody, the first four years in juvenile detention and five of the last nine years behind bars. But he was lucky in one respect; he had only been in city and county jails, never in state prison, so far....
After teaching Spanish for fifteen years in Los Angeles schools I was burned out and took an early retirement. I wanted a complete change in my life and moved to a small farming community on the west coast of Mexico. I had long ago decided that anybody wh...
I had my heart broken about ten years ago when I was eighteen. There’s nothing unusual about that, I know. At some time before, I had developed a crush on my best high-school buddy… and had made out with him. He, of course, liked it and we did it a lot fo...
My liberal leanings had brought me to this place: one of the worst run prisons in my state. It was a minimum security prison. The smallest of the half- dozen state prisons, it was in a remote corner of the state. It seemed to have been forgotten by the...
Briggs was relieved the wedding had gone off without a hitch. Cecil was his youngest son, and he had wisely waited until he was twenty-five and had a good steady income before marrying. And he had chosen well. Briggs was happy to have Gina for a daughter-...
My name is Burt. I’m a big good-looking twenty-five year old guy. I know I shouldn’t have included good-looking in that description, But I’m not bragging. I didn’t have anything to do with it, so I can’t claim credit for it. It’s just the way it is. After...
It was late Sunday afternoon and we had been waiting for this moment. My wife yelled, “Lew, my water broke.” I grabbed the bag and went out and started the car, like a fool leaving her to lock up the house. Going to the hospital it seemed we were hitting...
Allow me to start out by telling you that this story is entirely true, it took place right after I turned sixteen. And for the boy’s name, I don’t know if it would be right to say, it’s an extremely uncommon name so that will remain anonymous . I had my f...
