We were led out front, stripped of our khakis, and provided with orange jumpsuits two sizes too big so we billowed and glowed like inflatable men in front of car lots.
Author / Illustrator
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Ace Boggess
Ace Boggess is author of five books of poetry, including Misadventure, Ultra Deep Field, and The Prisoners, plus two novels: States of Mercy and A Song Without a Melody. His writing appears in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Laurel Review, Folio, Psaltery & Lyre, and other journals. He received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and spent five years in a West Virginia prison. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.