John DiMenna, Author at Minutes Before Six

The Revelation

I love new beginnings. I’ve compiled a lifetime of them. But I have a blind spot…

In this day and age, there are seemingly endless things we could be worried about. Every…

When I look back to reflect on my past, I learned that I had many justifications…

The nonfiction prison writer has it the hardest. We are denied the full exercise of our…

Prisons turn prisoners into synthetic babies. Grown men get reduced to feeble undesirables, dependent upon their…

It was the start of another liquid day at Morristown State Psychiatric Hospital. “Cheryl-the-Squirrel-Girl” sat on…

My hands were sweating, my stomach turning. I had an idea from watching all of those…

Bitter SeedBy Christian Weaver I. Let us slip through a fold and abysm of timeWherein fate…

The world is a prison. – Goethe If you’ve ever been incarcerated, then you know what…

In prison, the environment can be so feral that sometimes I feel like I’m trapped in…