Hard Sun pt 8

A little girl.
In a swim suit.

One piece,
starfish.

Eight.

Or nine.

A police officer broke,
her back.

Her mother went to court, suing the officer.

I felt like I didn't
have to intervene.

But she lost.

No monetary compensation and public

humiliation.

I quit being a salesperson and made the whole business flounder for years, just because I enjoyed how my boss turned grey. Eventually dying from a stroke. Circle of Willis my ass.

I exposed a thick, torturous vein of corruption in the police department.
I want...
I want...

The police officer has a daughter of ten or eleven.
I followed him to a parent-teacher conference,
and locked the doors behind me.