Boarding Diary Novels & Stories

"I've been trying to figure out how to say this correctly for three months." "Say what correctly?" He reached into his jacket and put something on the table between us. A folded piece of paper. Not official, not letterhead, not a document. Just paper, folded twice, handwritten. "I kept notes," he said. "From 2021 and 2022. Dates, observations, specific incidents." He looked at the paper. "I kept them because I knew I might need them someday and I was too cowardly to do anything with them then." He paused. "The oversight board has a digital record system but they've asked for corroborating documentation from direct witnesses. Contemporaneous notes carry weight."