#5minutefiction & #fridayflash "Empathy Training"

[kaolinfire]

I think I'm doomed to never complete #5minutefiction in the allotted time (I almost always _start_ after the buffer on entry is past), but ... hey. A cute one this week, imo ~

Empathy Training

He’d lie awake, chilled from the cold sweats that troubled his infrequent dozing. He’d curse, in a dozen languages, the turns that had brought him to this

Comments

[anonymous]

I thought he was the criminal at first. I have to wonder what kind of society trains it jurors to empathize like that.

[kaolinfire]

A righteous one ;)

[nalene]

I thought he was the criminal at first too.

[kaolinfire]

Very careful word choices, that :)