Justice On The Pier

It didn't hurt.That was the first strange thing. I'd always imagined that being shot would feel like something. A burn. A blow. A flash of agony that announced itself to the whole body. Instead there was only a vast, hollow, ringing quiet, and a sensation of warmth spreading down my right arm like water from a tipped glass.I looked down.My shirt was red.It had been white a moment ago. I was almost sure of it. I remembered buttoning it, in a bedroom, in a life that felt like a very long time ago, for a gala at which a thousand people had applauded a speech about trust. Now the front of it was soaked from the shoulder to the ribs, a dark, wet, spreading stain, and something warm was running over my fingers and dripping from my knuckles onto the floor.*Huh,* I thought.My knees weren't working.I noticed that with polite interest. A kind of astonished courtesy, as if the legs had been consulted and had declined to cooperate. The concrete tilted. The smoke swung up on one side like t

Safe In The Chaos

I don't remember the last ten feet.I remember the concrete, cold and gritty under my palms. I remember the iron frame of the chair scraping behind me, the awful dry rattle of it, and the hot sting of the plastic tie that still bound my right wrist to a bent length of steel. I remember voices shouting. Boots drumming. A flashlight beam swinging across the floor and across my hands and across a long dark smear of red that I kept crawling through without letting myself understand what it was.I remember his face.That was all. For the whole length of that terrible journey, there was only his face, floating at the end of a tunnel of smoke and light, pale and streaked with soot and so impossibly *there* that I thought if I looked away he might vanish."Felix," he said.His lips barely moved.I reached him.Someone cut the tie around my wrist. I felt a tug, and a snap, and a sudden strange lightness, as though a weight I'd carried for years had been taken off my arm. I didn't look to see w

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Justice On The Pier

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