Then there were the special tortures, the ones I’m sure my guards sat up late at night thinking about. I was chained down naked for two days on the floor of a rat-infested cell while dozens of those disgusting creatures crawled all over me. My body was covered with rat bites by the time I was let out. I was once left in a darkened cell for days while they fed me emetics and laxatives to make sure I’d wallow in my own filth. One time they told me they were going to castrate me. They wheeled me into an operating room and put me under. I woke up back in my cell and panicked for a second until I checked; they’d left my testicles and just given me a vasectomy. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry; I think I did both at the same time.…
There were electroshocks and other casual cruelties. I’m o
