Editors note: A few weeks back we received a concise and very appealing message in our journal mailbox:

“I know very well you have never read anything like this. Please let me know if you need any information from me. My best,”

– Louis Bourgeois, Executive Director of the Mississippi Prison Writers Initiative.

Indeed, the level of snuff in his texts is quite extraordinary, as if reading the mind of a perverse murderer. The five texts that follow are his own works of fiction. Over the next few weeks we will publish them one at a time, releasing them slowly to dose readers with the extreme and unflinching material he has granted us. Here is the first.

He is strange to the extent that he would prefer to be his dog’s teeth rather than himself.  He would like to kill himself but he doesn’t know how.  He can’t understand his caged birds and this sometimes leads him to masturbate; he doesn’t understand his sperm and this leads him to cut himself all over with an extremely heavy and sharp knife.

He asked his doctor to amputate all his limbs and the doctor said he wouldn’t perform such an operation.  Nowadays, he spends all his time stalking good looking amputees, male, female, or otherwise.