Welcome to the Yard. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the inside, as an inmate, or a guard. Nor does it matter if you are on the outside, as a friend, or family member visiting a loved one who’s incarcerated. Everyone’s here in the Yard. Everyone is locked up.It’s been called a dozen different names or more, in as many different versions and incarnations: Jail, Lockup, The Slammer, Prison, The Joint, Juvy, Correctional Facility, Reformatory, Asylum, Cuckoo’s Nest, Crazy House, Boot Camp, Penitentiary, Stockade, Dungeon, The Cooler, The Can, Guardhouse, The Pen, Statesville, Bullpen, Pound, House of Correction, Up the River, Detention Camp, The Rack, The Inside, The Cage, Penal Institution, Clink, The Black Hole.Called by any number of names, it all amounts to one thing: You’re no longer FREE. And loss of freedom has been called by any equal number of just as frightening terms, synonymous with all of the above: Detainment, Confinement, Incarceration, Sentenced, Convicted, Institutionalized, Impounded, Held, Caged, Imprisoned, Committed, Restricted, Under Lock & Key, Sent Up River, Put Away.But that’s only the beginning of the story.Featuring tales by these amazing authors: A Farewell to Apotheosis by Gregory L. Norris, Swing a Sparrow on a String by Ken Goldman, Mastress of Light and Dark by Catherine A. MacKenzie, In the Jailhouse by Bruce Harris, The Will to Lose and Parole Violator by Laird Long, It’s a Kinda Magic by Jeremy Mays, Solitary Man by Adrian Ludens, A Rose is a Rose? by Larry Lefkowitz, Second Chance by Tom Larsen, Prisoner Reincarnated by Calvin Demmer, Just a Spoonful of Horror by Gary Ives, Seven Conversations in Locked Rooms by Alex Shvartsman, Smaller by James A. Miller, Return to Death Row by Fredrick Obermeyer, Unlife Sentence by Eric J. Juneau, A Ray of Hope by Paul Stansfield, The Life and Multiple Deaths of Virgil Eugene by Jennifer Word, End a Days by Kristin Dearborn, Misconceptions by Bryan Grafton, Impala by Timothy O'Leary, Monroe and Warner by Morgen Knight, Brooms by Jon-Michael Kelley, Redemption by Lee Duffy, The Joint by Randy D. Rubin, Responsibility by A. R. Shannon, Finding the Answer by Travis Richardson, The Flea Jar by Layla Cummins, Innocence USA by David Rachels, Jeremy Knox by Jeffrey K. Blevins, The Side Job by Joseph B. Cleary, Penalty for Misuse-$20 and The True Vocation of Sandy Brylirn by J. J. Steinfeld.
