“Every man you’ve killed is someone’s child, Attano. You can measure it however you want, however gets you to sleep at night, but you and he are hardly different.” These words have flooded my mind since I left CJ. Am … Read More
Family Practice
I’ve seen brutal things in my life. Nothing more than watching someone suffer through the slow death of an infection. The pain and inflammation lead to suffering at the worst levels. It is a torturous death. I’ve seen limbs grow … Read More
Uneasy Ground or Where Trust Goes to Die.
Life in Arcadia can be like walking through ever shifting sands, a world full of uneasy ground. It’s a place where you don’t know who you can trust or if you should. Even those supposed to lead us don’t have … Read More
Open Letter: Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum or The War of Change
Dear Zeus, Every heart will one day beat its last beat and every person will one day breathe their last breath. I know, I’ve seen it happen all too many times. It’s because I understand something that may not … Read More
Harold Fuckin’ Attano
Sit right back and let me paint y’all picture. I get shoved down to Deathrow, ‘cause I didn’t wanna kill no more. I come back and I have some kid shovin’ pictures of my daughter’s dead body in my face. … Read More
Master of Puppets
“You know, it’s not the loud people you need to worry about. A man walks into a room looking like a Terminator well, all eyes are already on him. But the motherfucker who cracks a few jokes but is relatively … Read More
Congratulations…
Arcadia, I’m going to do something I don’t normally do and preach. Because recently things haven’t been so easy for me. I’ve been beaten down by life. I’ve felt cast out by the man I call a friend because he … Read More
Why We Need To Talk…
*Flashback* Mr. Nobody is walking into his cell when he stops as he notices the sound of footfall behind him. As he turns Harold finds the younger inmate, switchblade drawn and Harold sighs in exasperation. “Look, I know you feel this … Read More
Glass Maze
Harold walks through halls littered with shattered glass. He hears his heart beating in his ears, he has no idea how he got here, as his eyes dart around the maze he’s been dropped into, as he pulls his sidearm … Read More