Showing posts with label Arrest Prompt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arrest Prompt. Show all posts

Sunday March 13th, 2011

The exercise:

Today we write about: the arrest.

Kat and I have been watching Arrested Development on Netflix the last few nights. It is good stuff.

Did some more planting in the greenhouse today. It was nice to do garden work while it was raining and not get wet. I hope to be able to do garden work while it is not raining at all some time soon.

Mine:

They came in the night while we were sound asleep in our bed. I'm a very light sleeper but I didn't wake until they were shining flashlights in our faces and screaming words my drowsy brain couldn't process.

He didn't resist, he just did as they told him to. He kissed me on the cheek before getting out from under the covers, very slowly, always keeping his hands where they could see them. I think it would have been a different story if he thought he could get to the gun under his pillow before they emptied their guns into him.

They escorted him out of our room, leaving me where they'd found me. I wasn't sure if it was some terrible dream or if I was bearing witness to an even more terrifying reality. It took me a long time before I was able to get up and move to the phone.

It wasn't until I reached for the receiver that I realized they had never identified themselves.