title: A Generation of Dark: A Prison Notebook
author:  C.F. Villa 
description: C.F. Villa began his writing career with short stories. His work has appeared in magazines such as The Rejected Quarterly, The Storyteller, America in WWII and anthologized in the book Hell is a Very Small Place (The New Press, February 2016). After serving 15 years in solitary confinement, he was released back to the general population at the California Correctional Center. A Generation of Dark is his first collection.
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  Through the Iron Bars
  
  
  [I. THE PRISON GATES.](Through%20the%20Iron%20Bars_split_001.html#filepos2571)
  
  [II. THE LOWERED
  FLAG.](Through%20the%20Iron%20Bars_split_001.html#filepos15657)
  
  [III. THE POISONED
  WELLS.](Through%20the%20Iron%20Bars_split_001.html#filepos30734)
  
  [IV. THE SACKING OF
  BELGIUM.](Through%20the%20Iron%20Bars_split_001.html#filepos51755)
  
  [V. THE MODERN
  SLAVE.](Through%20the%20Iron%20Bars_split_001.html#filepos72154)
  
  [VI. THE OLIVE
  BRANCH.](Through%20the%20Iron%20Bars_split_001.html#filepos119165)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Through the Iron Bars
  
  
  ### Emile Cammaerts
  
  
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  * I. THE PRISON GATES.
  
  
  * II. THE LOWERED FLAG.
  
  
  * III. THE POISONED WELLS.
  
  
  * IV. THE SACKING OF BELGIUM.
  
  
  * V. THE MODERN SLAVE.
  
  
  * VI. THE OLIVE BRANCH.
  
  
  
  
  
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