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Wright to Jail
A Memoir of Murder? Not Exactly.
Shane Wright & Cillian Knight
© 2026 Shane Wright
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Wright To Jail
by Shane Wright
Website Edition
Wright to Jail is a work of fiction. While it may draw inspiration from real events, institutions, or experiences, all characters, dialogue, and scenes are fictionalized. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
This book contains depictions of incarceration, institutional systems, psychological distress, substance use, and morally complex situations. It is not intended as legal, medical, or mental health advice.
Scriptural and symbolic elements—including Tarot and religious language—are used as literary devices and metaphor.
Cover art and interior design by Shane Wright and Tom Monarch
Independently published
Part of the series A Man Cut Into Slices
Wright To Jail has been written for viewers like you.
Thank you.
Also, a big thank you goes out to all the friends and ARC readers that helped prevent the story from spiraling out of control.
And a super special thank you to “T”, if it weren’t for her, A Man Cut Into Slices would have never grown up.
But the biggest thank you is dedicated to my family; I would have never made it anywhere in life without their love and lessons.
Hello, divine guest, and welcome to a slice of one of my past lifetimes.
If you're reading this, it means that after thousands of hours, I have finally finished part one of this project. I call it a project because if I simply called it a book, it would solely be categorized as one, and critics would get to twist the narrative like a lawyer who got OJ off.
And in Wright To Jail, no one gets off.
This journey you're about to begin was conceived in a jail cell with nothing but a dictionary, pencil, notepad, my imagination, and most importantly, a thesaurus. Even after Cillian Knight and I left the physical cell, the story kept writing itself within a prison of my own mind.
This series A Man Cut Into Slices is written as semi-fictional, which allows me the freedom I crave to create. It might feel amateurish and experimental at times, but I prefer the term prison poetry over amateur poetry.
The story starts with The Book of Knight, which is basically a mirror of the prologue, but written in the style of the Book of Mormon. It’s meant to be a dedication to my late father and his deeply held LDS religious beliefs.
Anyways, if you ever get offended by my art, I'll give you the same response any inmate will give you if you complain: Don't like it, don't come to jail. Meaning if you don't like it, keep my name out-cha mouth and don't fuckin’ read it.
Pardon my French there, but this is an edgy world of vulgarity you're dabbling in now. I've put considerable effort into attempting to walk the line of being honest and raw without being too offensive. Which makes now a good time to give some of you a modern-day trigger warning. This book has the following: Manslaughter/murder, physical assault, self-harm (suicide references), blood and injury descriptions. Psychological trauma, PTSD, emotional abuse, various mental health struggles (split personality and dissociation). Drug use, drug addiction, withdrawal experiences. Sexual references, innuendo, or lustful thoughts, non-consensual situations, and stressful situations (there are no rape scenes). It's mostly PG-13, until strong profanity and coarse language probably push it over the edge into R-rated territory.
Outside of Wright to Jail, when you see {“words in these brackets”}, that is my alter ego Cillian Knight speaking.
{“*ring ring ring You called?”}
No Cillian, I didn’t call. I was just letting the audience know what to expect when you interrupt me.
{“Should I play spoiler right now and tell them that within Wright to Jail {“words in these brackets means…”}
NO! Stop it you little shit, go wait in your cell!
{“When you wait for your waiter to bring you your food for thought, in that moment, do you not become the waiter?”}
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— O
My deepest gratitude goes out to you for reading this peace of artwork, and we want to leave a well-known, yet life-altering message for the right people:
Perspective is everything.
We have far more control over the way we see life and its treasures than the media or our daily distractions will admit.
Without further ado, let us go down this rabbit hole together…separated only by time and molecules.
Preface
Tarot is familiar to just about anyone also familiar with a deck of cards containing Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spaces. Few recognize what actually rests at Tarots center though: the path of the Fool. A journey of the soul moving through the world, within a human vessel.
In this case, he steps into the world aloof yet curious, facing trials, teachers, and revelations within. Each card provides a chance to grow and understand the self through reflection and accountability. With most challenges, he solves another fraction or slice of himself, inspired by the age old concept of completing the circular cycle of life. Each chapter of this series has been paired with an overarch of what is to come.
As the Fool moves from chapter to chapter, card to card, the divine reader is allowed to bare witness to the pieces of a broken beings naked soul. An up-close chance to see the beauty and danger of self-discovery through self-awareness.
A profound truth is we are all The Fool,
Striving to become whole,
through the process of,
Becoming Gods teacher,
not the Devils student.