SN100 Challenge #161: Jail - Walls of Stone
Walls of Stone
He remembers how it was when first they got here. We've made it! their smiles had told one another, We've arrived! and they'd clapped hands across the anchor desk.
Now here they are, three years later and no farther on. He's just that other guy, the sidekick, the stooge, unplaced on anybody's stupid list.
Once you've reached the place you're going - then where do you go from there?
He summons up the rictus that's good enough to fool these people who need a nightly reminder of his name. "… alongside Casey McCall," he recites, and hears the prison doors clang shut.
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He remembers how it was when first they got here. We've made it! their smiles had told one another, We've arrived! and they'd clapped hands across the anchor desk.
Now here they are, three years later and no farther on. He's just that other guy, the sidekick, the stooge, unplaced on anybody's stupid list.
Once you've reached the place you're going - then where do you go from there?
He summons up the rictus that's good enough to fool these people who need a nightly reminder of his name. "… alongside Casey McCall," he recites, and hears the prison doors clang shut.
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