Doing Time

Hard life beginnings for Jimmy educated him to use his fists. As he struggled through adolescence to manhood he had to stand his ground many times. His father, knowing him better than he knew himself, taught him well.
Spreading his wings in search of his own kind, he found a wider, amazing world. Without warning, the skills which had kept him safe, suddenly condemned him to time behind steel.
Prison hadn’t been part of the plan, he pondered it as a space to recoup lost opportunity.
Gruller’s reputation as a brutal thug preceded him. Big men had buckled under his sadistic hand. As Jimmy’s new cell mate, the foretold future looked bleak. It was lucky Jimmy had never heard of him.