Torn: Sixty Days of Calaboose

by Tracy James Jones

~ A Fictional Memoir ~(Contemporary Psychological LGBT Drama) Adult language, mild sexual situations.What could possibly go wrong for a sensitive effeminate male unexpectedly incarcerated in a room full of unpredictable strangers? For Adrian Bailey, just about everything, and in the midst of constant fear, lies, prejudice, and madness, he finds more…Under false pretenses, Adrian Bailey finds himself arrested and locked up in the local county jail for the first time in his life. Despite all the horror stories he had read or heard of concerning life behind bars, nothing was like the actual experience. Not only was he utterly devastated and confused over the situation he was unjustly thrown into, but also lost at the mercy of whatever actions that could or would be made against him, including prejudice from someone of his own race. As the madness of his experiences take control, he fears his only recourse is to succumb to whatever means necessary to survive.The traumatic events that occur thereafter would surpass everything Adrian thought he ever knew about real life. And then he finds what he never an intense three-way love affair that would test every remaining fiber of his mental stability and then some. The love of one would only add to his mental deterioration, while his connection to the other would at some point give him peace. Worst of all, there wasn’t one thing he could do to stop any of it. Not one damn thing at all…

240 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2014

About the author

Bio:
I grew up around Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, and started writing while in high school with the help of a wonderful Journalism teacher. At Navarro College I majored in Journalism / minor in Mass Communication. Before college, I worked as an actor with the local Community Theater, and as an extra/stand-in for award winning feature films, “Places In The Heart” & “Born On The Fourth Of July.” As a freelance writer/novelist, I have written several college introductory letters, other contract writing projects, newspaper articles, and two published novels. My literary portfolio also includes a screenplay adaptation of my original fiction novel, “Searching For Eden.” Recent release, "Secrets & Lies"-2011, is a multicultural romantic drama which is also being adapted for film.

About Me:
According to a close relative, I was raised in a perpetual glass box, over protected from the woes of the real world around me. To a degree I accept this description because my early years were spent with my maternal grandmother who indeed sheltered and taught me only the good things about life. Through her, I learned to treat people the way I wanted to be treated, and to respect all others despite any differences. I lost my grandmother at the age of nine, but the things she taught me would last throughout my life. Once she was gone, the blinders were lifted. I was to never be a stranger to the hardships of life again. The hardest of all has been love, death, & prejudice. The joys have been a loving family and life-long friends. Most special are my mom and dad, Willie & Jennell Jones, who have been my champions throughout everything I have envisioned to achieve in my life. I am so blessed in more ways than I could have ever imagined.

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