Jan Jolly

Jan Jolly retired from the Arkansas Department of Correction in 2017 and is currently working on a master’s in nonfiction writing at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Jan lives with her husband in Little Rock, Arkansas where she raises an urban vegetable garden and writes for academia and pleasure.

The Chaplain, the Tao Te Ching, and the Long Game

Arkansas Department of Correction: Grimes Unit, 2000
The inmates leaned on their shovel handles and gazed up the long, sloping fairway. The man in a clerical collar and black shirt stood on the tee box.
“Ostrich?” one inmate whispered.
“No. Lower body is too skinny. Stork?”
“I got it. Praying mantis.”
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