@ Indian Creek Correction Center in 2025

“La La, will you take her out on a date?” one of my homeboys asked me of a plus-size Hispanic female in a photo. “What?!” was my first response. I thought it was a trick question because people who knew me already know this answer. My homeboy asked me again. “Damn right!” I said with conviction. Another one of my homeboys who was standing around us said: “I told you, bruh. La La loves big girls.” My homeboy smiled then shook his head in disbelief.

I’ve always been a chubby chaser for as long as I can think back. As matter of a fact, my first puppy love crush was a White girl name Lauren. I still remember it as if it was yesterday. When I was about 7 years old, I went to Skateland – an indoor skating rink in Richmond, Virginia – with my big brothers and their crew. On the carpeted sideline of the wooden-floor rink, my brothers were surrounded by a crowd of teenagers as they danced. I always thought my brother, JeMario, was the best dancer alive, even better than the legendary Michael Jackson. I stood alongside some of my brothers’ groupies and watched my brothers entertain their audience.

@ Nottoway Correction Center en 2016

“It’s probably small,” were the prison guard’s shocking words. “What?!” I said as I walked up and looked into her eyes. I had to make sure I wasn’t hearing what I wanted to hear. “You heard me … you probably got a small d*#%,” she said thoroughly, sashaying and smiling with a demonic warning written on her face. It was a surprise given how she was a new, rookie guard. It’s against Virginia’s DOC policy for an inmate and staff to have an intimate relationship. Although I was about that rebellious life, I didn’t know her. We didn’t have a report, so I didn’t know if she was 12 (police), or one of them ones. Given the obvious, I was stunned, yet I was intrigued and turned on by her gangsta approach.

South Wood, formerly known as San Suzi, was one of Richmond’s largest apartment complexes that’s located in the cold trenches of the city’s south side. In the mid 1990’s, my older brothers and a few of their childhood friends cofounded a brotherhood called N.I.C (Niggas-In-Corporated). Many of N.I.C’s members were teenage pretty boys whom were known as a local rap group. Despite their charitable contributions and helping me with my homework, they were allegedly linked to a long string of serious crimes, including homicide, shootings, assaults, drug trafficking, and gun trafficking.

After years of standing for morning counts, my body is trained to wake up about 5:35am. Laid back on my steel bottom bunk with my head faced right, I scouted the ten bunks ahead of my end bunk. Minus different rhythms of snoring, most of the guys were asleep like newborn babies. I shifted my head center and rested my chin on my chest to watch a 13″ TV. Processing my country’s involvement in the Israel-Iran war, I closed my eyes and began thanking God for another day.

Months after my Aunt Sylvia died in 2023, my brother, JeMario, was fatally shot. I experienced drug addiction for the first time at 35. Emotionally scarred by my painful loses, I began numbing my pain with buprenorphine (suboxone). I fell into a deep darkness of horror, and I was lost with a 1,000 lb anchor chained to my hands and feet.

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As I continue to carefully assess which party exemplifies my political interests, there has been a string of events that has fueled my distrust in the Democratic sector.

For more transparency of the matter, I am highly disappointed with Mr. Biden’s dark list of pardons. I don’t oppose to second chances, of course, but I largely disagree with him commuting the death sentences of convicted serial killers–that’s completely absurd. I neither agree with Biden’s ridiculous act of granting clemency to the “Kids for Cash” mastermind, nor the woman who embezzled tens of millions from her employer.

If I were to tell you that I never felt like quitting, I would be lying through the hair-thin crevices of my teeth.

The writing world is overwhelmed with writers who are striving to break into the competitive book industry. Waiting is common for writers, especially children authors. Regardless if it’s one day or one year, in my experience, the waiting game for writers is frustratingly exhausting. Writing can be hard at times. The pursuit of getting work published is even harder. Anticipating the flourishing of planted seeds is undoubtedly the hardest.

On several occasions within the past few months, people have asked me if I am Republican. Perhaps my enthusiastic appraisal of Donald Trump’s presidential victory may be the reason. I also acknowledge how my pro-Trump statements may demonstrate far right behavior; however, I hope my consistent support for the United States of America’s 45th and 47th President doesn’t necessarily reflect the overall social values or political principles in which I stand.

Moreover, in response to the growing questions, yes, I am absolutely certain of a future in governmental politics. Despite years of studying the infrastructure of political ordinance, though, I have yet come to a solid decision as for which party I want to join. However, I am officially announcing that I will be running for a public electoral seat (preferably delegate, senator or mayor) soon after the restoration of my voting rights.

“If you don’t give me my money by the end of tonight, I’m gonna beat your a@#,” was the warning from a guy who was owed $3.00.

I was annoyed by the angry man’s threat. I didn’t understand, as I probably would’ve when I was an ignorant boy, how people could become violent over something so small, and was likely accumulated illegally. I was not the least surprised. In my 19 years of incarceration, stagnating individuals making bad, senseless decisions is steadily prevalent in prison.

Did you know Donald Trump will be only the second president to serve nonconsecutive terms? Now that we’ve voted Trump to be our 47th president, it’s an interesting question as to why he wasn’t reelected in 2020. Did Biden really … never mind.

When Joe Biden took over America’s highest office in 2020, arguably the most powerful country in the world has been taunted by smaller countries and threatened economically.