"The weight deck, where we exercise at the Washington State Penitentiary, is not hospitable to vegetation. Sunbaked gravel and decades of dumbbells dropped from prisoners’ hands make it the last place one would imagine new life to spring up.
But one day I spotted an unusual-looking plant growing in the middle of the razor wire-topped cage where the guys work out. It was August, the middle of a miserable heat wave. The plant had teardrop-shaped leaves, which were green with a purplish hue, and it sprouted up about 1 foot above the gravel. It was hard to tell if it was a weed or a tree or some other kind of plant.
...Groot, as a pen pal lovingly named it, has been with me since August 2022 and was recently transplanted into a bigger pot. It’s become a recognized face around these parts, and corrections staff haven’t seemed to mind. Groot has even added three more branches since being transplanted. It definitely looks like a small tree. Over the holidays I decorated Groot with ornaments and a cross on top. I placed three presents under the tree. There wasn’t anything in the presents; I just wanted to create some Christmas spirit.
My unit supervisor asked me recently: “What are you going to do when it gets too big for your house?”
I guess I’ll have to figure out how to smuggle in a saw next."
-How I Smuggled a Plant Into My Prison Cell by Jeffery Mckee
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I need y'all to take a look at the fic
"The lie behind the Golden Truth" by Jevana
It got everything from interesting characterization to really good world building post-Trimax to angst hell.
Please if ya haven't already, give it a shot it's so fucking good omg
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i have been wracking my brain trying to find new topics to write about on substack but i always go back to music. girl who only listens to music in their life and does nothing else hmmm u know what this (anything) reminds me of ...
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