Inside Voices

It was the first time I saw her. It was the 100th time I’d seen her. Mona Lisa, she has the room to herself. When I’d seen her in my...

I had been waiting for this day for so long. It was like waiting for Santa on Christmas, thinking you’re hearing his sled & reindeer on...

The ground beneath my feet was ice cold, yet when from the ignorance of what was happening.The room spun around me in the moment of sheer...

Las Vegas is a crazy city. How can one place be an oxymoron to itself? So beautiful, almost pure full of light and love but so filthy and...

It seeped out of me. Slow, slow, slowly. I don’t know if it took days or hours or months. All I know is I felt it leaving my body like...

I don’t want to leave. What more can I say? The dread that overcomes me as I feel the impending date looming. It’s coming and I can’t...

Empty. The essence of her is now gone. Faded. Into the background. No longer to be seen. Her beauty discarded. No one to know her vibrant...

The day I turned myself in was the hardedest, worst day of my Life. I remember it Like it was yesterday. I woke up at 7 o’clock in the...

It’s 4 am in the morning. It’s time for transfer day. Everybody is still asleep. My mental alarm clock has kept me up, from the anxiety...

When I was a little girl we had a dog named Muffin. Muffin was a feisty little dog. She used to love to follow me to the mailbox. One day...

Lilliana E was seventeen, lost I guess. Just wanted to feel protected. Found it, she knew what she had to do. Didn’t expect the blinding...

It was the first day of my new job – the summer of 2000. Finally. I would be working at pms, a medical office that provides services to...

There’s been a time in the history of the world. When time went much slower. A lot of people looking, and trusting those of authority to...

Cantonment, Florida, Nep Ball Park. My thing my drive my passion my religion is just as important as being in church on Sunday morning....

It’s possible to learn the same thing twice, each time as if it’s brand new. But the first time I learned it, it came from within my...

I am very passionate about treating others the way you want to be treated. “The golden rule.” I can’t stand a bully! Being here in prison...

Moon Middle School, Oke, OK. Circa 1983, 6th grade. I met my first love, he had been touched many times, but no one ever touch him like I...

Am I a semi necrophilia? 68 degrees of please just let me in you. The feel I get when I plunge into your depths. Every nerve screams oh...

Do you remember sitting in our cells in the County Jail after being sentences to the State Peunitienary laughing nervously at...

Something in your life you we're blind to and that you see differently… I have been blind to self love. Growing up I was taught to care...