In the 1960s a former KKK member in prison works in the Pendleton Penitentiary prison library. A newly imprisoned young black man is sent to the library to work with him. The young man is illiterate. In order to make him useful, the older white man must teach him to read. So begins a story of jail-house noir for both men. This story first appeared in River Fiction's Special Crime Edition, published by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith's WMG Publishing.
Genre: Historical
Genre: Historical
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