Winner in 2nd Place Humor at the Tennessee Mountain Writers 2025 Conference

 Facing long term lock up my roommate and I decided we were going to outwit the system that ran the joint. We were both incarcerated due to no fault of our own but we weren’t taking it lying down. 

In my former life I had been in charge of distribution and Sissy’s background was acquisitions so we had the skill set to move some product. Contacting a couple of our outside resources we arranged for mules to ferry in contraband and we in turn distributed over forty pounds of chocolate before a snitch ratted us out to the nursing home Director.