Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (TX), Author at Minutes Before Six

All My Engines (Or, The Day I Learned to Love the TDCJ Group-Mind)

February 11th, 2009 I have recently become a nomad. After nearly two years in the…

February 1st, 2009 (Note the events detailed below take place May 2006) The thing that I…

Hell´s Waiting Room By Devon Terrell Gave up my promises You took my song I have…

January 1st, 2009 4:06 AM My official New Years Day plan was supposed to involve some…

December 31st, 2008 Michelle, of the insanely loopy calligraphy, writes: “Dear Thomas, I found this survey…

December 18, 2008 I think it is fair to say that a certain sizable portion of…

December 10th, 2008 Five years. How can such a slice of time seem simultaneously eternal and…

November 24th, 2008 Have you ever seen one of those Rube Goldberg devices before? You know–…

Saturday, November 1, 2008 Have you ever been in an office cubicle where one entire wall…

Friday, October 17, 2008 “Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly.…