Cell 168, top bunk. The plan was simple: keep your head down, stay out of other people's business, serve the time. Then a guard shoves a new cellmate through the door, 'as agreed', and the plan has about a week left.

Your cellmate is Sky, a blond with freckles who answers one word at a time and draws in a notebook he keeps closed. Brody, who runs the block, had him earmarked for his own tier. Kowalski, the guard, can stop the transfer once, on paper, for sixty cigarettes you'd better start earning.

All characters are fictional adults, 21 and over, and everything between them is consensual.