Because the Stars Incline Us

Mark Olmsted
10 min readFeb 14, 2019
Michael Sheen as Robbie Ross in “Wilde”

Michael,

You won’t believe the story I have to tell you.

Seriously, you won’t.

But I have to tell somebody, and of all my close friends, you’re definitely the one who loves Oscar Wilde the most. (And judges me the least, as a rule.) So whether you believe what follows or not, you’ll want to believe it, and that’s something. And even if these pages spend the rest…

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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.