Despite anguished pleas, I’ve submitted a new story — “Heaven Sighs”.
When is extreme savagery justified? I’m talking about good guys administering street justice. About the suspension of due process. About trampling on the civil rights of the baddies. About being judge, jury, and executioner.
You Dante Alighieri scholars (ho ho) will recognize the chapter headings for this story as the Nine Circles of Hell. The reading times shown for each chapter emulate the old magazine, “Liberty”.
As usual, the vigilante dilemma, and, really, the entire novel, befuddled the editors — Thorny, Steven, Mike, and the new guy, Jim. Jim came on board one story ago during “The Second Sausalito”. So far he has reported no completely incapacitating symptoms from his participation in the Paige Hawthorne saga. We’ll see.
In Memoriam: pcbondsman. Editor, raconteur, good guy.