If you're looking for the most generic person in the world, Bradley would be it. He was a relatively unknown police officer of a small, peaceful town of Hemnaferris. They said the name was pure gibberish, and he agreed. What kind of word is "hemnaferris" anyway? For years, Bradley had searched for this disrespectful scum who breaks into people's houses and steals everything he could steal. This criminal is known to people of Hemnaferris of "The Wednesday Crook" because somehow, he only does his terrible actions at Wednesday midnight, just before sunrise. Someone says he looks tall and skinny, meanwhile somebody else says he looks short and fatty, but whatever he looked like, everybody (except for the insurance company) hated him.
Bradley Harris is a normal-weighted light-skinned 26-year-old who's very interested in criminal action. He joined the police force because he watched some cop movies on TV and his average score in high school is C-. The only thing he can do better than others is obeying the rules (which he does VERY well, to the point that he didn't watch a single violent movie until he's 18) so it's very clear on why he decided to be a law enforcer. He's currently single with no signs of erotic love in his mind, but he had very awkward moments with his guy friends in community college that he never wants to remember.
Bradley is very interested with The Wednesday Crook. He works after hours just to find out more about this peculiar criminal, "interrogates" the victims (all of the victims are his friends, he just hangs out with them) and even tried to interview the man himself to no avail obviously.
Then, one Wednesday night as he was walking in a park across his house, he saw a figure of some sort above one of his neighbor's ceiling. "Hey, who is th- wait, it's Wednesday and it's 3 in the morning... it MUST BE!" he immediately realized and rushed into the 2-story Victorian-styled house. The wooden front door is unlocked for some reason, but no time for thinking! He rushed into the second floor and saw the man himself, the Wednesday Crook. Bradley with his martial arts skill (which he learned from a TV program) caught the thief off-guard. His neighbor woke up from the noise he made and saw Bradley catch an unknown trespasser which he instantly recognized to be the Wednesday Man. The neighbor said to him with an angry voice, "Mr. Harris, it's been the THIRD time you slept on the job this week. Wake up!" His vision is all the sudden getting blurry, and then...
Bradley was sleeping on his desk with a bunch of papers flying over his head, his uniform which looks like it just came from a swimming pool, and his chief who looked like someone threw a pie at the poor guy's face. Bradley's chief is very friendly, but he really, really doesn't like seeing people slacking off. It's like he has an ongoing grudge towards slackers. "Mr. Harris, you sleep on the job again and YOU'RE FIRED, you hear me?" his chief exclaimed, "Yes. Sorry chief, I won't do that again.", he replied. He remembered that he went to his best friend Carter's house until 3 in the morning, then coming home only to get 2 hours of sleep because he must go to work at 6. The same thing also happened 2 days ago, but the only difference is that he got home 2 hours earlier.
It's almost the end of his shift but he had barely done anything, so he's doing his papers really quickly so he can go home on time... or at least that's what he had in mind. In reality he played Solitaire on his computer until 30 minutes before his shift ends, then he did his papers very quickly it's like he didn't even look at it at all but hey, he's done everything just 3 minutes after his shift is supposed to end, so good for him!
He gets home with a run-down bicycle given from his older brother who owns a massively successful jewelry shop in the city. He's not rich but he's not poor either; he could buy himself a better, sturdier bicycle for only 1/20 of his monthly paycheck or a car (his house from the police station is quite far) for a month of his paycheck but he prefers not to for some reason, instead he spends a lot on electronics like his computer, TV, and game console which he treats them like his children.
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One Wednesday
Short StoryBradley is a 26-year-old police officer who lives in a small, peaceful town of Hemnaferris. He has taken quite an interest in the local law-breaking scum known as The Wednesday Crook, who breaks into people's houses and swipe what he could get every...
