6 YEARS A SLAVE by Laurence Corman Alagati

PART I

To Whom it May Concern:

I do not deny killing Chadwick. Let’s get that off the table right now, shall we? With the pre-meditation of any trained actor (involving a crash course in chemistry and poisons which has been well documented if a tad overblown by tabloids who make me out as some sort of Batman villain boiling beakers in his honeywagon)— I did succeed in ending Chadwick’s life. I did not succeed in getting away with it. Dear audience, may I ask you now to ask yourself: Do you revile me for my act of killing? Or is it the fact that I didn’t get away with it which repulses you most? The neutered, cerebral man I played on television was - I am the last to humbly admit from inside my prison cell - smarter than I. All the more reason to hate me, you say? Yes, I am now become {sp} double the killer in your eyes, dear audience — not only the murderer of my TV co-star but of your childhood illusions too.

Who cares if my murder was not of a human being (therefore does it really constitute the word murder, one asks oneself?) Now, this is not an attempt to minimize my deed. It is simply a fact which needs to be established clearly. (You can remove the actor from his work but you can never expect him to stop prioritizing language.) Chadwick was a dog.

Confession # 1: I hate the man who killed that talented creature almost as much as you do. The “almost” is on account of me knowing my own peculiar story, which I intend to share with you all here, thanks to the help of Jimmy who is transcribing these letters from “the jungle” (as I have come to affectionately call San Bernardino County Correctional) into posts on my page. Thank you, Jimmy. It is fans like you who see in me still something redeemable which illuminates for me my own road towards redemption. And hopefully even justice to the real perpetrators whose crimes far exceed caneicide (the proper, if newly coined, term, which I hope the reputable journalists will appreciate).

Signed,
Laurence Corman Alagati
Inmate #498287