How do you react when you're cornered? Talk your way out, prepare for battle or insist you're just fine and dandy? Mike Baldwin's "Cornered" characters reflect the full spectrum of these reactions - all the while doing their very best to be taken seriously. From dark to light to blindingly brilliant, the results delight, amuse or even confuse - but it's well worth the risk. No one's ever lost an eye reading "Cornered" (aside from one reader who got WAAAY too close - you know who you are). In the end it's discovering the inconvenient truth of being "Cornered" that sets you free.
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caller49 said, 4 months ago
Um, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll just give you time served.
rmacprivate said, 4 months ago
And that bag can’t begin to hold enough to compensate for 35 years in stir.
jimmyh43105
said, 4 months ago
I don’t know if it’s a sense of humor or a sense of irony.
battle of plattsburgh said, 4 months ago
His future is in the bag.
phritzg
said, 4 months ago
At least he learned a skill while he was in the joint.
Rhadamanthus said, 4 months ago
Tfhe SF author William Tenn wrote a short story years ago called “Time in Advance.” The premise was that a person could serve hard time in a prison colony (where people were needed) and later commit the crime with impunity for which he had done the time. The story concerned the first man to successfully serve ‘time in advance’ for murder…