Where Excuses Go to Die
By John Espinosa Nelson
Table of Contents
Credentials and Consequences
Genuine Mexican Parts
Finish this Sentence
The Freeway
Bring Me the Head of Elvis Presley (or, Just ‘Cause You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should)
Bus Therapy
Ernie’s Auto-Erotic Wallpaper *
My First Cellmate
Shot Down over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Month with Mo
I Played Prison Football and Lived to Write This
Requiem for an Excuse
Three Hole Days
“You Got All the Answers, Don’t You?”
Don’t Stare at the Sun
Gun Tower Bookends
“Departmental Realignment”
You Can’t Beat the Folsom Channel
The Red Balloons
Straight Outta Christmas
Prison Shower Hazards (Download PDF)
“If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive” (Download PDF)
Big Brother Has a Lazy Eye
Some of My Best Friends Are Jewish (Inmates)
Blood & Oatmeal
“Hey!”
The Law of Averages
Lock Me in the Storeroom
Dismissed in the Interest of Justice
Get a Whiff of This
“Earliest Possible Release Date”
Aftershocks
*(The Good Men Project – Featured Content 6/17/2013)