The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37563   Message #1437042
Posted By: Ebbie
17-Mar-05 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat challenge: 100 word story exactly
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat challenge: 100 word story exactly
This subject is on my mind so I'm doing this as an exercise. Later I'll try to follow the guidelines...

""Not guilty." With those words in my ears I join the ranks of the damned. Mixed with the heady relief of reprieve is the knowledge that never again will I know a night of dreamless sleep and never a day that I can afford to ignore who is behind me.

"There are not many people in my club and none that I know personally. If I should meet them, what should I do? Wave gaily and move on? Or stop and compare stories? Discuss lawyers and juries and people long gone? Share my how-I-got-away-with-it story and ask them for theirs?"