The Corner 11 by Alex Richardson & Tina Nance

Author:Alex Richardson & Tina Nance [Richardson, Alex & Nance, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Family Saga, United States, African American, Urban, Sagas
Amazon: B00IH8HH0I
Publisher: Miller Beach Publishing
Published: 2014-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

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Sonny was in the dayroom wearing an orange jumpsuit like the rest of the men around him. He was in MCC Chicago, the Metropolitan Correctional Complex, the federal prison that blended in with the other skyscrapers that filled the Chicago skyline. He was in the dayroom with the other inmates. Some sat around talking shit and telling lies about how they used to be the man on the streets. Others sat and watched the Maury Povich show, where women tried to figure out who their baby’s daddy was.

Sonny had spent the last five years at Leavenworth Penitentiary, a federal lockup about twenty-five miles north of Kansas City, Kansas, and now he had been sitting here in Chicago for the past three months, waiting to be released on a technicality. A technicality that would have him out of prison much earlier than he’d expected, since he had been sentenced to twenty years. But Sonny was lucky. A lawyer came to visit him, letting him know that he was being represented pro bono, and that the judge and the prosecutor who presided over his trial had been arrested for taking bribes and fixing cases to pad their conviction rate.

Sonny was twenty-nine years old, and hadn’t been in the city he’d been born and raised in since he was twenty-four and getting money, mostly in the suburbs of Chicago. That is, until he was arrested after the feds raided a house and found five kilos of cocaine and guns. He and two of his boys were taken in at the scene.

His main man, Travis, was out of town at his stepfather’s funeral, so he luckily missed getting knocked. Sonny was glad of that, because besides his sister holding him down, Travis was the only one who looked out for him. There were a few friends out there who had shot him a little cash, but they had to watch out for themselves, because with the top men of their crew getting knocked, it was like any other type of structured business, the head falls and the rest is sure to crumble.

The old head sat across from Sonny, thumbing his goatee as he thought hard and studied the chess board. Sonny could see what move the man should make, but knew he didn’t see it. Sonny’s past five moves had been preplanned, and the man, who was supposed to be the best chess player on the floor, was no match for Sonny, who was taught by his cellmate back in Leavenworth to always think many moves ahead, on the chess board and in the game of life. Sonny had figured that he wouldn’t get out of jail until he was in his mid-forties, but now, here he was at the age of twenty-nine about to see freedom.

The old head finally moved his knight, just as Sonny figured he would. The man left his Rook exposed; Sonny took it with his Bishop and called checkmate.

“Damn, boy you good. I can beat everyone but you. How

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