ISSUE NO. 22
MAY 2026

Creative

This section publishes creative contributions mostly from currently and formerly incarcerated people. It includes short-stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, and much more.

If you have something creative to submit to us, we would love to read it, or see it, and publish it in About Time – please write to us!

Latest

By Phillip

There’s irony, hypocrisy, fallacy, a vast ocean of distance to cross. The “saint”, the “sinner”, it’s lunacy, that the ignorant could save the lost.

ISSUE NO. 22
2 MIN READ
By Karie

I’m not belle of the ball, not the very least, but we have something in common, I’m in love with a beast. But the beast is not a person but a drug that I call meth, I’ve been talking to myself for hours, I’m running out of breath.

ISSUE NO. 22
1 MIN READ
By Dennis

Nostalgia is a gentle haze, a soft and fading, golden maze, where time itself begins to blur, and memory’s touch is sweet and pure.

ISSUE NO. 22
1 MIN READ

Previous Editions

ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

The Sun and Moon

By Karie

Regardless of how we are feeling, days still start and end. Regardless of what I do, what others do, what happens to me or what happens to them.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

The Silent Path

By Denis

On an icy day, we’ll meet again, on a silent path, free from pain. No greetings spoken, no sparks to fly, just a quiet knowing in each other’s eye.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Beautiful Souls

By RM

Why should you suffer for my pain. Knowledge in this I should try to gain. Does it feel I have left you alone? It may feel I have cut you to the bone.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Losing Control

By Goodj

The calls we hear every day, whether guilty or claiming you’re innocent, there’s a price we each must pay. “It’s a privilege not a right” you’ll hear the screws say, but the moment you’re behind those bars, your control is taken away.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

I Will Always Love You

By Jack

A poem for the one true love of my life, I wish I could change the past, but I can only change my future.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Mistakes (For My Mother Toni)

By Megan

She saw his will and was convinced, she listened to his lies and was convinced, she looked into his eyes and trusted his smiles, she was convinced.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Imperious

By Belly

I yearn to spend loving time with my Mother, to reunite with my sister and brother, to introduce my kin to the new man I am.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Let Down

By Matthew

I hear the sirens wailing, I know the cops are coming, to my door, I let down my family, even my kids, friends and all.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Family Tree

By Erin

How would it be, to be set free, yes, I’d smile with glee, no guilty plea.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Sound Advice

By A.S.P.

Life is only short my son, with so many paths to take, life is an uphill struggle, with every step you make. That’s why you must treasure life, with every second of the day, because you may never know, when it’s your turn to go away.

2 MIN READ

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