Prison Sex

"The "I" is a woman who is deliberating getting married to her boyfriend and is frightened. Her childhood has made her distrust union. She has a friend who has just gone to jail for growing marijuana. He has been a war hero, an artist, is good looking, a womanizer. She begins to visit him, because he is trapped like she is, and he gives her advice on love and herself. She begins to listen. He is the one who is "free" to her. In listening to him, she begins to itemize her own crimes in love. She marries her boyfriend, out of friendship, but the marriage feels doomed to her because the prisoner's mind is lodged inside her. She has to come to where she belongs and what is freedom to her. Walley writes from the powerful voice of the "I" as her imagination blows wide open for she's busy "disturbing the peace, a peace you're never going to be a part of." Yes, she will go To Any Lengths, perhaps even create disturbance in searching for her own crimes and those others have committed in order to release herself from these imprisonments. "I had meant to write a brilliant prison break." Yes, she must reckon with herself, with her history, with the truth about her symbiotic relationship with her father and abandoning mother and the challenges she faces do to those experiences, until she realizes, "This is no crime today I tell you of. At least there is no name for it. Except maybe for blind mother love.""--