Time Served: An Excerpt of a Prisoner's Life

About the Book

Time Served, is a fact based account of my life and times before, during, and after a four year stint in Virginia’s state prison system. Complimented by a series of previously unwritten and heartfelt letters to my runaway father, my prematurely deceased mother, and to God;  this book walks the reader step by step through emotions caused by separation from family and freedom as well as the life lessons that can only be learned behind bars.

About the Author

This author is desperately seeking success. Everyone experiences loss and missteps along the way but most keep the feelings caused by them bottled up or internally shelved. The problem with that as I see it, is that those bottles and shelves are so fragile that the slightest reminder of the pain will cause them to crack and crumble. My book has helped me with my grieving process. I lost years. I lost youth and innocence. And after all of that, I lost my mama. I was completely filled with agony before I started writing. My book has helped me to decompartmentalize my pain and in the end writing it relieved me of more anguish than I even knew I had.

If I have learned one thing about being an ex-felon it is that nothing good is coming. If we wait it out all that is out there for us are glass ceilings, closed doors and mediocrity. Sometimes you have to place all of your cards on the table and go for it.  The only way for a convicted felon to get over the self-imposed hurdle is to do something big and this book is how I chose to do it.