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Submitted to Contest #296
Meeting the prisoner on death row caused my skin to prickle as if a porcupine had walked over me. ‘Take a deep breath. It doesn’t matter what horrendous crime has been committed and she now resides in this hideous jail. She is still a human being with a soul and deserves dignity as her death approaches.’ I told myself. At first her voice was shrill and as sharp as barbed wire; as we talked of ordinary things her tone became less prickly. She must have felt comfortable with me because she asked me to call her by her inmate nickname “Old Shazz...
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