He sat stony-faced in the dock. Despite many years of sustained abuse and his vile attempts to twist her psyche, she'd kept safe a pure core of goodness, and she gazed on him with pity. But ...
'Forgiveness is not absolution,' she said, and the judge pronounced sentence.
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Short StoryTwitter has a daily prompt using the hashtag #vss365. This thread will be for pulling those stories, plus other very short stories, into one place. There are a mixture of genres, the occasional sequence with repeated characters, and a mix of serious...
