Books I read this summer

The Common Reader - Virginia WoolfThe Big Short - Michael LewisComing of Age in the Milky Way - Timothy FerrisThe Wonder Bread Summer - Jessica Anya BlauThe Financial Lives of the Poets - Jess WalterCitizen Vince - Jess WalterThe Zero - Jess WalterBeloved - Toni MorrisonChina Rich Girlfriend - Kevin KwanGilead - Marilynne RobinsonBeautiful Ruins … Continue reading Books I read this summer →

jPay Message #176

I was chopping it up with the guys in the adjacent cube, and the subject of locking up arose, prompted by that fucking douche last Thursday, who quietly ran up a couple hundred worth of debt over the two week span he was in our unit. Some of it was with me (I always seem … Continue reading jPay Message #176 →

jPay Message #175

So I was made fun of for how not like a criminal I am...again. This time I was standing watch for my cubies as one cut the other's hair--a very minor infraction--as I was briefly distracted by a conversation with a neighbor when I looked up to see a CO not even 10 feet away. … Continue reading jPay Message #175 →

jPay message #171

I just finished Jess Walters’ “Beautiful Ruins”, which is probably the best book I have read all year. I consider myself a well-read guy, English major, and all, having read around 250 books since I’ve been down, but somehow, I had never heard of jess walter until about a month ago. Literally, one of the … Continue reading jPay message #171 →

“A Cautionary Tale”

On my fifth day of prison, I hear my bunk number announced over the loudspeaker. I'm informed someone's here to see me, and told to change into my blues and head to the control center. My mind races with guesses of who my visitors were, making me nearly giddy with anticipation. My stomach plummets when … Continue reading “A Cautionary Tale” →