Friday, April 3, 2015
A Writer's Inkwell : The First Three Weeks As 'Radical Anarchists'.
This is my first short story published on my blog. Feel free to comment with thoughts/critique. A Writer's Inkwell : The First Three Weeks As 'Radical Anarchists'.: The city's Police Department had publicly announced their intentions to charge the pair of cousins with 'Willful Destruction of Pub...
The First Three Weeks As 'Radical Anarchists'.
The city's Police Department had publicly announced their intentions to charge the pair of cousins with 'Willful Destruction of Public Property', 'Conspiracy to Destroy Public Property', 'Disorderly Conduct', 'Resisting Arrest' and several 'public nuisance' complaints. They further added that written 'materials' in the form of a sort of 'manifesto' warranted the charges. Local conglomerate affiliate reporters swarmed over their families and current lives.
The young university students' landlord along with a handful of eager, 'stupefied', fellow tenants, reported: their year and half residency in that thin-walled apartment complex had resulted in one complaint for loud
music, one complaint for a speculative raucous argument; that they seemed 'nice', though somewhat 'odd' in dress and manner; always busy in their own affairs. One 'unnamed source' claimed himself friendly with the younger cousin, yet felt he had been 'accosted' by him a week prior to their arrests -for he had of a sudden been approached by that 'rambling' cousin, who attempted to 'recruit' him. Three employees of the nearby coffee shop informed reporters that the 'somewhat friendly but secretive' cousins' nearly daily 'sit-ins' until closing, consisted of: alternating 'heated' conversation and 'hushed' words and tones; of one writing with fury while the other dictated.
University officials affirmed both were students there, supplied their SAT' scores, and further added that their semester averages were quite high. When pressed, one university official 'revealed' that their own investigation concerning them and those of their 'confined' clique of peers was underway. They refused further comment.
Within a week all the 'dirty laundry' had been 'dragged out', 'sorted', 'laundered', 'hung out to dry' by the 'local media' - who then promptly dropped the whole matter.
One week after, both cousins were quietly found guilty of only misdemeanor 'Public Nuisance' and 'Disorderly Conduct' charges by the presiding judge, given fines to pay and time served.
Upon release they were minus half of their already meager possessions -thanks to an intense search by police; without scholarships - therefore also without student status; and without a 'good' name.
And the worst of it all? Every bit of the charges and the resulting media attention, were all wind and fast moving, dark cloud -without the threatened rain, hail, thunder and lightning. That is, until an ideologically driven corporate 'news' outfit got wind of the cousins' and their families' complaints concerning the whole matter -and somehow the supposed 'manifesto' as well.
The young university students' landlord along with a handful of eager, 'stupefied', fellow tenants, reported: their year and half residency in that thin-walled apartment complex had resulted in one complaint for loud
music, one complaint for a speculative raucous argument; that they seemed 'nice', though somewhat 'odd' in dress and manner; always busy in their own affairs. One 'unnamed source' claimed himself friendly with the younger cousin, yet felt he had been 'accosted' by him a week prior to their arrests -for he had of a sudden been approached by that 'rambling' cousin, who attempted to 'recruit' him. Three employees of the nearby coffee shop informed reporters that the 'somewhat friendly but secretive' cousins' nearly daily 'sit-ins' until closing, consisted of: alternating 'heated' conversation and 'hushed' words and tones; of one writing with fury while the other dictated.
University officials affirmed both were students there, supplied their SAT' scores, and further added that their semester averages were quite high. When pressed, one university official 'revealed' that their own investigation concerning them and those of their 'confined' clique of peers was underway. They refused further comment.
Within a week all the 'dirty laundry' had been 'dragged out', 'sorted', 'laundered', 'hung out to dry' by the 'local media' - who then promptly dropped the whole matter.
One week after, both cousins were quietly found guilty of only misdemeanor 'Public Nuisance' and 'Disorderly Conduct' charges by the presiding judge, given fines to pay and time served.
Upon release they were minus half of their already meager possessions -thanks to an intense search by police; without scholarships - therefore also without student status; and without a 'good' name.
And the worst of it all? Every bit of the charges and the resulting media attention, were all wind and fast moving, dark cloud -without the threatened rain, hail, thunder and lightning. That is, until an ideologically driven corporate 'news' outfit got wind of the cousins' and their families' complaints concerning the whole matter -and somehow the supposed 'manifesto' as well.
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