A Drug Called Shame

Dicky patted his cellmate on the head, then put the ramen pack they’d struggled over in his collection of soups, porn, shivs, candy, and tobacco.…


“The Man Inside Me,” “Listen to the Bell,” “Following the Birds,” and “That Special Number”

The Man Inside Me My surgeon checked on me while the nurse hit the dilaudid I gawked at him “This man’s hands,” I thought, “were inside me more…


The Rollback

The kid lay on a park bench holding his face. One eye was swelling; it was a golf ball and would be a tennis ball in a few minutes. He had an hour to…