Justin C. Key

TOR with another original piece of short fiction. Justin C. Key’s “The Perfection of Theresa Watkins” is a story about race, sickness, and prisons in America. The turns in this story is how the prison systems change a person and not by rehabilitation but through the terrible mismanagement that they are widely known for. An exploration of mental illness by way of race through the lens of the political problems within the prison system. Justin C. Key explores the humanity that can be found in sweeping inhumane systems that we all live with. Very fine writing and Key truly cares for his characters.… (mer)