(CNN) -- An inmate wrestles with his fear, boredom and remorse.
He is subjected to random strip-searches as a fellow inmate espouses conspiracy theories about the jailhouse food and another is busted with a hidden ball of black-tar heroin.
The alternately bleak, wry and amusing scenes, described in a series of journal-like entries, would fit comfortably in the work of Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Roger Avary.
But they may be based on fact, not fiction. These 140-character snippets have been popping up for more than a month on what friends acknowledge as the Twitter account of Avary, who is serving a year in a California jail for vehicular manslaughter.
In fact, the tweets may have landed Avary in tighter security.
Avary, 44, whose Oscar came in 1995 for co-writing "Pulp Fiction" with Quentin Tarantino, appears to have begun the posts September 26, around the time he began serving his sentence at Ventura County Jail northwest of Los Angeles.
Avary's Twitter feed had been dormant since July 23, when he wrapped up a series of tweets describing what appeared to be scenes from a prospective screenplay.
After a two-month hiatus, the September 26 post contained only two words: "FADE IN," the traditional beginning of a professional screenplay.
"Nightly, every few hours like clockwork, a guard's flashlight beam strikes #34's face, perhaps to ensure lack of proper rest and exhaustion," reads a post from November 20. Many tweets describe Avary as "#34," an apparent reference to his inmate number.
Other posts describe an array of life-in-jail moments, from the bittersweet release of a friendly cellmate to an accidental fire in a coffee can used for cigarette butts that brings a harsh response from riot squads.
"Night falls, and the only real activity is an endless recounting of the terrible and pointless events that brought us all to this sad place," was the November 2 post.
Source : CNN News
He is subjected to random strip-searches as a fellow inmate espouses conspiracy theories about the jailhouse food and another is busted with a hidden ball of black-tar heroin.
The alternately bleak, wry and amusing scenes, described in a series of journal-like entries, would fit comfortably in the work of Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Roger Avary.
But they may be based on fact, not fiction. These 140-character snippets have been popping up for more than a month on what friends acknowledge as the Twitter account of Avary, who is serving a year in a California jail for vehicular manslaughter.
In fact, the tweets may have landed Avary in tighter security.
Avary, 44, whose Oscar came in 1995 for co-writing "Pulp Fiction" with Quentin Tarantino, appears to have begun the posts September 26, around the time he began serving his sentence at Ventura County Jail northwest of Los Angeles.
Avary's Twitter feed had been dormant since July 23, when he wrapped up a series of tweets describing what appeared to be scenes from a prospective screenplay.
After a two-month hiatus, the September 26 post contained only two words: "FADE IN," the traditional beginning of a professional screenplay.
"Nightly, every few hours like clockwork, a guard's flashlight beam strikes #34's face, perhaps to ensure lack of proper rest and exhaustion," reads a post from November 20. Many tweets describe Avary as "#34," an apparent reference to his inmate number.
Other posts describe an array of life-in-jail moments, from the bittersweet release of a friendly cellmate to an accidental fire in a coffee can used for cigarette butts that brings a harsh response from riot squads.
"Night falls, and the only real activity is an endless recounting of the terrible and pointless events that brought us all to this sad place," was the November 2 post.
Source : CNN News
