People Would Buy Tickets

People Would Buy Tickets is my first attempt at creatingfiction. Do not be misled into thinkingI am getting tremendously creative here. Realistic fiction becomes fiction only because I have changed the namesof people and the titles of the places where it was necessary. I am still telling stories that reallyhappened, only embellishing where I lack details or think it would be moreinteresting. The part of this book thatis really fictional and dreamt up is in the descriptions and actions of themain characters, but I am still using stories from, and characteristics of,people I have known personally. Thatsaid, Heck and Count arewholly fictional characters, and are not meant to symbolize or representanybody.When I began thisproject, the title of the book was, CountIs Clear. After carefulconsideration, that title works only if you are familiar with correctionaljargon. I had intended some word playwith the term count, and a main character, Count, but it does not work if youare not already familiar with the term as it applies to corrections, and thecharacter. The title that I decided on, People Would Buy Tickets, comes from aco-worker, who does not want his name mentioned here. Many of you know myprevious work, and realize that I was simply writing about things that reallyhappened. There is not much writingtalent in regurgitating, just a skill for translating real life to paper. The primary characters are all fictional, asis much of their background, but the inter-woven humorous short stories are mostlyfactual, if only slightly embellished events related to me by co-workers and myown experiences while working in the corrections field.