Behind Bars
kia_spens18
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  • Reads 104
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  • Parts 15
  • Time 1h 31m
kia_spens18
Ongoing, First published Jan 25, 2024
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Behind bars; the last place you'll want to ever find yourself but at twenty-five, that's where he sees himself.

All he wants to do is survive because that's all he can do.

But prison is more than a place filled with evil people facing punishments for their crime. It's about resilience, it's about redemption and sometimes, it's about finding yourself when you never could even with freedom in your hands.

In a place where it's beat or get beaten, he'll find that his identity is far more spectacular than he ever let himself believe and in a God he stopped believing in years ago.
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