Author Archives: Justin Marlin

I awoke from my nap refreshed. I took another look at my wounds and took a few pictures. My face was a little scratched up but not too bad. I had black and blue marks under my armpits and at my elbows from the deputies’ batons. My wrists were chafed from the tight handcuffs. AboutContinue reading “Surveying the Situation”

Breakfast, served a few hours later, was cold cereal with a half pint of milk, and a couple of cold pancakes. I wolfed it down; delicious, under the circumstances. Another had joined my cell, unnoticed and on his own mat, sometime during the early morning. After breakfast I was led to another cell, big enoughContinue reading “Chapter 2: the morning after”

I did a terrible thing, and am ashamed. I almost killed, and/or almost died, depending on who you ask, the prosecution or the defense. Naturally, I lawyered up, and eventually all charges were dropped. I don’t excuse what I did, but I’d like to spill my guts and tell the whole story. Confession is goodContinue reading “Chapter 1: Arrested”

If you’re reading this then you made it through 2020. Congratulations. We shared much pain in the year of the Great Pandemic. In October of 2020 I lost my job after 19 years. This blog is a fictionalized look back at that career, and my personal struggles at work and home. Let’s call my smallContinue reading “Preface: 2020”

This is a Roman a Clef, French for “Key Novel.” If you know the key, you can learn the true story behind this fictionalized account. The action takes place in Penntown, a small suburb of Roquefort, New Amsterdam. Learn the key and discover the tale.