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Prison Visit
Short story / 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee
Prison Visit is the unnerving story of a taboo relationship, a chilling crime, and the harrowing effect of imprisonment.
"Very intense...prisons around us, prisons within us...[takes] us Inside to a place of fragile hearts tangled on twisted logic." --Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express, Midnight Return, and Midnight Express: Letters From a Turkish Prison 1970-1975
"Prison Visit does everything a short story should, with harrowing and beautifully captured detail." --Susan Merrell, author of A Member of the Family and The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relaionships
"Prison Visit [is] a searing short story." --Lou Ann Walker, author of A Loss for Words
"Those familiar with Senft's work...will be in for a world of hurt when they read Prison Visit...her brutally honest story. 'It's a very disturbing story'...is an understatement. Senft follows the main character...to visit an inmate, someone who haunts her very being. We're brought on a journey through paradoxical emotions of her memories...as she faces this person and the relationship that has defined her entire life." --Patch.com
Prison Visit is the unnerving story of a taboo relationship, a chilling crime, and the harrowing effect of imprisonment.
"Very intense...prisons around us, prisons within us...[takes] us Inside to a place of fragile hearts tangled on twisted logic." --Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express, Midnight Return, and Midnight Express: Letters From a Turkish Prison 1970-1975
"Prison Visit does everything a short story should, with harrowing and beautifully captured detail." --Susan Merrell, author of A Member of the Family and The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relaionships
"Prison Visit [is] a searing short story." --Lou Ann Walker, author of A Loss for Words
"Those familiar with Senft's work...will be in for a world of hurt when they read Prison Visit...her brutally honest story. 'It's a very disturbing story'...is an understatement. Senft follows the main character...to visit an inmate, someone who haunts her very being. We're brought on a journey through paradoxical emotions of her memories...as she faces this person and the relationship that has defined her entire life." --Patch.com
34 pages, Paperback
First published March 6, 2013
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March 10, 2013
Unnerving, uncompromising, and perfectly-crafted, "Prison Visit" is an account of a young woman's visit to see her incarcerated brother. It has the feel of a novella, in that it accomplishes a great deal in a surprisingly short amount of pages, and it is one of those astonishing works that will likely be considered one of the best short stories by a 21st Century American writer. Through a deadpan and keenly observant second-person narrative, the reader experiences the impersonal horrors family members of felons endure when forced to interact with the prison system, as well as the very personal, hidden horrors the narrator has endured, and continues to endure, during her visit. It is bold and shocking, but not gratuitous--though certainly not for the young, or easily distressed (due to its extremely adult sexual content). The voice of it's narrator, and her candid, heart-breaking disclosure, stays with you long after you've finished.
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