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Second Postponement

Author: January Reign
last update publish date: 2026-09-09 12:08:38

POV: Ricki

The second time they canceled his hearing, they didn't bother giving him a new date at all.

Ricki sat in the same cramped room, same folding table bolted to the floor, but a different clerk sat across from him this time. Younger. Her eyes fixed on some point over his left shoulder the entire time she spoke, like looking at his face might cost her something. She didn't reach for a stamp. She didn't need to.

"Your hearing's been postponed," she said, flat, rushed, like reciting somethi
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