Internal Chaos
by M.W. Moore
M.W. Moore Publications

After a plea deal and confession to six bank robberies, Miguel Morris’ life behind bars becomes a daily tempest marked by insolent penitentiary guards and delusional inmates.

But despite the chaos, the former NCAA track champion must adjust to prison because it’ll be his home for the next 15 years, unless he’s paroled before then.

His first year of confinement is like a mental torture chamber as he is robbed of dignity. His college education is now inconsequential. Among his distresses, the former crack cocaine addict and model is forced to confront his disdain for flamboyant gay men when one, Kiki, becomes his cellmate. Oddly, Kiki indoctrinates him to life behind bars – teaching him prison jargon and survival.

Although penitentiary starts out as a lonely place, Miguel’s megawatt charisma –much more subdued in lockup – still works to his advantage as many secretly admire his 6-foot, 2-inch stacked athletic frame and dark-chocolate complexion. Along the way, he discovers that intimate and emotional attachments are practically non-existent. But when those occur, submissive individuals are treated as property, often with violent consequences. Even Miguel is hurt a couple times when his heart is left unprotected.

Internal chaos results because confinement leaves him powerless to assist his mom’s fight with cancer, and his best friend Lazlo, who’s struggling with tough choices that threaten his sanity.

Miguel’s misery intensifies further after being assigned to the back-breaking, Texas heat field labor of picking cotton and cabbage, a reminder of an era that hearkens back to slavery. He also spends weeks in segregation without privileges after being caught having sex in another inmate’s cell.

But when he meets Judas, deception takes on an entirely new meaning. It’s one of the darkest moments for Miguel as the forces of evil continue to lurk.

BIO

Author M.W. Moore is a native of Houston, Texas.

He began writing years ago while incarcerated in 1997, serving a 15-year prison term for several bank robberies. He released his first fact-based novel, For What I Hate I Do, in 2006.

Internal Chaos continues the semi-fictional storyline of the protagonist, whose turbulent life closely mirrors that of the author.

An indulgence into crime was an aberration for Moore, who grew up in a respectable middle-class community. But an addiction to crack cocaine changed that for the former NCAA track and field champion, who had run the 200- and 400-yard dashes at universities in Texas and Mississippi, where he also studied industrial engineering. He continues to compete in the Masters division.

His upcoming release of the final installment, An About-Face, will explore the final years of incarceration and, ultimately, freedom for the protagonist.

Today, besides being a successful writer, Moore is a manager in the oil and gas industry.

The third of five children, he still resides in Houston with his family.

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