text: The nightmare wisked her awake. It felt so real she thought. Sweat had soaked her hair damp. The things she saw in the land of sleep as she called it foretold doom. It was just a nightmare though, it wasnt real? The grey sky shifted and changed shape outside. The sinister looking clouds and mist covering the tops of trees spewed forth shadows and a heavy cramped feeling filled the air. The staggering wind swept over the enclosure. Only two inches of rough steel separated the harsh elements from the calm safe space she had come to call her prison. Outside it was hell. The cold hell that you reach at the deepest parts of dantes inferno, where the devils own wings freeze the lake at Judecca. The environment did not forgive or ever stop. This was Siberia the coldest place on the planet and the last place she wanted to be. Shoshanna pulled her blanket over her face. The next few minutes she drifted back to sleep. One of the few who even got 40 winks in the prison. She decided to dream of something warm and fuzzy. Happily she dreamed of a bright sun and sandy beaches, crashing blue waves and birds cawing over head. She dreamed the feel of sand squishing between her toes as she lounged in a chair, the ocean air filling her lungs. The land of sleep was her only escape from the revelation of eternity in this place. She had once seen a photo of a beach, oahu hawaii she thinks, it mustve been a post card cause it said aloha on it. When she went to the wardens office for a checkup three months ago because his stomach was hurting. She saw the photo on a wall near a shelf covered in dust. She wanted to take it so bad. If she had been caught though, her rations would have been cut in half for a week. Nobody steals from the warden. He smelled always of musky aftershave and put off an aura of cheap salesmen. But behind his sly smirk there was a different man. He would break an inmates nose if he looked at him wrong. There was nobody to report to above the warden so a guard could kick your ass and get away with it. In fact shoshanna witnessed just the day before an inmate laughed at a prison guard when he slipped and fell in the hall and that inmate was beaten half to death and she had to treat him in the infirmary. The inmate had two broken ribs, several broken fingers and needed twenty two stitches in his face. Shoshanna "repaired" many inmates that had accidents in the prison. She complained only once to the warden and never did it again. The warden tried to explain many inmates were violent and assaulted and killed people before they ever came to the prison. He showed shoshanna a videotape on his VCR of an inmate that got sent to the infirmary for a stomach ache. The inmate faked his symptoms and when alone with the last prison doctor raped and murdered her in the span of four minutes. The warden did not care about any inmates only his correction officers so they got to beat up or hurt an inmate if they wanted and not be punished.