Kronos Prison Reads is a series of short stories that teaches prisoners how people work and play well with others in a difficult world.
Kronos Prison Reads helps prisoners better understand who they are and who they could be. Prisoners will find these short stories influential, engaging, thought-provoking, entertaining, and applicable to their current reality.
Books are a prisoner’s lifeline. Why?
A prison is chock-full of two-dimensional realities – realities that are direct opposites. Up/down. Left/Right. In/Out. Prisoners are regulated to the very last detail. In prison they live and breathe in a two-dimensional black and white reality.
However, prisoners think in three dimensions. Height. Width. Depth. Colors. Energy. Fantasy. Three-dimensional realities signify the presence of imagination. Home. Family. Freedom. Prisoners learn to exist in their two-dimensional prison world by living in a three-dimensional reality in their minds.
Therefore, books are a great portal that allows prisoners to go from one state of consciousness to another. Prison administrations know this. However, because of prisons being secure facilities, prison administrations censor incoming books for content and contraband. It is somewhat time consuming and difficult to get books to prisoners past prison screening.
There is some hope. Prisons are starting to understand the value of prison tablets. Prisoner tablet programs are starting to open more minds to more new worlds. Prison Reads is a series of digital short stories that are/will be written and produced to be read on prisoner tablets. These stories will pass prison censorship and contraband inspections.
Kronos Prison Reads will honor the mission and principles of The Kronos Project, and where applicable, address the four factors the prison cannot accomplish.
New worlds will open up to prisoners with the Kronos Prison Reads short stories series. Promise.
Ruth and the Navy Man
It was 1942. Ruth was a preacher’s kid, dutifully attending a small Christian college in rural Indiana. After graduation Ruth yearned to escape her religious upbringing and step into a secular life in a big city. All of that changed in a chance meeting with Navy Ensign Bud Belker, a Navy enlistee training on Ruth’s campus before shipping out to the Pacific. Their brief but profound relationship changed Ruth’s mindset about God. Her newly repaired faith revealed that her hoped for secular life and her spiritual childhood were not opposing forces, but one shared human journey. Yes, she now had a wartime love with her Navy man. Ruth and the Navy Man is a story is about reconciling faith with real life.
Available now on Amazon. Published February, 2026
Armstrong: Excerpt
Armstrong’s younger brother, Jeffrey, was in the backseat crying. Armstrong, sitting in the passenger seat, held back his tears, and snapped at his father, “You bastard, you didn’t have to do that.” Armstrong had never used the word ‘bastard’ in his seventeen years of living. Never. Ronald Kelly slammed on the brakes and let his right arm fly, his hand slamming into his son’s nose. Blood gushed from Armstrong’s nose. Ronald then put his large right hand on Armstrong’s face and pushed it violently into the side window. “Don’t you ever talk to me like that again. Use your shirt and stop that bleeding…”
To be published on Amazon March, 2026
Mateo Excerpt
Mateo Garza had been exposed to the Rio Grande Valley drug trade for about twelve years now. He was introduced to marijuana at about age nine, watching his father transport his ‘product’ from South Texas to Houston, Austin, and Dallas metro areas. It was always a family outing traveling to these big cities. Theme parks. Swimming. Visiting family. Carl would replace the family Suburban’s back seat cushions with about twenty pounds of weed, making it more of a bench feel for those in the back. Carl would sometimes stuff his marijuana in the spare tire…
To be published on Amazon, April, 2026
Carter Excerpt
Carter’s blow to Stinson’s head in the tenth round altered five lives. Stinson went into a coma, became a paraplegic, and died one year later. Carter couldn’t erase the memory of Stinson’s wife and two sons seeing Stinson lying motionless on the canvas. The fifth person affected was Carter himself. He was never the same boxer. Boxing insiders said Carter became gun shy in the ring. Scared to hit. Scared to get hit. He got a few fights after Stinson, but no more TV. Everyone could see that Carter’s love for boxing diminished. His career tanked...
To be published on Amazon April, 2026
Olive Hill: Excerpt
“How many different trails do we need to get to the Tygarts?” asked Charles. “One,” laughed Hogan. “The trail we’re on now goes all the way to the Ohio River at Poage’s Landing. This part of the trail is well defined. East of the iron ore furnace the trail is not as well defined – but, it is still a trail.”
To be published on Amazon May, 2026
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