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Justified: Five Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five noir stories about ordinary people who stop waiting for help to come.
No serial killer, no movie vigilante: the ordinary machinery of impunity. A complaint on file, a call that is never returned, an attacker who sleeps just fine. Up against it, people like anyone else: a father, an office worker, a brother, an entire neighborhood. And a fifth man with no case and no attacker: nobody ever did anything to him. Nothing specific. That is exactly the problem.
Inside this collection:
- A six-year-old girl doesn't sleep anymore; the case is closed; her father starts writing down schedules.
- An entire story written in the second person: you are the one walking home at night, along the route you know by heart.
- Law-abiding neighbors start a group chat, then a patrol. Nobody wants to miss their turn.
- An entire case told through exhibits numbered by hand, by someone who is not a cop.
Here, violence costs what it costs in real life: your body, your nerves, your conscience. Five crossings, five different reckonings. And no judge left in these stories: that leaves you.
For readers who tell themselves they would never go that far. Especially them.
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