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The Jacket    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 3990 words. Published on July 11, 2010. .

Imagine that you, like the grandfather in this story, are confined to a wheel chair from which you watch your only grandchild--in this case a boy, "Butch"--repeat your past like a re-wound video. Already emotionally estranged from the child, who is completely in your care, you can only watch and wait and hope the video will end before you are forced to use the pistol next to your right hip.
Pilgrims of War    by Carl A. Veno
Price: $9.99 USD. 49880 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on January 20, 2011. .

It's 1941, the Japanese have just attacked Pearl Harbor and immigrants are being sent to US internment camps. Amid this upheaval is Doctor Magdalena Russo, an Italian doctor on a passenger ship caught in the conflict. She would spend the next three years in internment camps. Her struggle to get back to her homeland takes her on a voyage of confinement, loneliness, fear and sometimes love.
Walk To Freedom    by Carolyn Merrimon
Price: $6.00 USD. 52280 words. Published on November 14, 2011. .

This is an autobiography of my life story. I was previously confined at Ft. Leavenworth United States Disciplinary Barracks located in Fort Leavenworth, KS. This is a Military Confinement Facility where military men and women, who have been court-martialed, are confined together.
The Lighthouse: a short story    by Karen Heard
Price: Free! 5350 words. Published on January 2, 2013. .

A young girl trapped in a flooding Lighthouse begins to wonder why her parents left... A short story originally published in the collection: It's Dark Inside.
An Unkindness of Ravens    by JT Pearson
Price: Free! 8920 words. Published on April 19, 2013. .

Jeff has been locked up in solitary confinement for nearly five years when the warden offers him an opportunity to reduce his sentence by joining crews that are repairing the country's energy grid, which has been rupturing and blowing up buildings and people, the unexpected and unfortunate result of changing the nation's fuel. He is added to a crew loaded with the nation's most notorious killers.