tailieunhanh - Killing The Lights

Just because someone says the ban's necessary to stop global warming/cooling/climate-change, doesn't mean that people believe it, or that the demand goes away. Bless her, Collins does her best to get me to talk. "You seemed so together. How'd you go from prosecutor to criminal?" Kids need to eat, decent schooling costs | KILLING THE LIGHTS by Stephen McDonald Copyright 2011 Stephen McDonald Originally Published in Out About May 2011 Smashwords Edition Smashwords Edition License Notes Thank you for downloading this free eStory. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This story may be reproduced copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes provided the story remains in its complete original form. Visit Stephen McDonald s blog or his Smashwords page to discover other works by this author. Many thanks for your support. Killing the Lights By Stephen G. McDonald Helluva thing the cop says. Losing your house over light bulbs. The police are collecting boxes of bootleg incandescents. My wife had helped me manufacture them in the basement of our now-burning Tudor. I recognize the cop - Collins - but she doesn t recognize me. Last time we met I was wearing a suit while arguing before a judge. Now all I have on are flannel pajama pants and handcuffs. A competitor must have ratted us out. The cops raided us in full assault gear pulled me and Kim out of bed. I guess we did enough business to be considered traffickers because they d been able to get a nighttime warrant. The kids were taken out and handed to a woman I assume was from Family Services. I knew to remain silent and they just sat me on the curb. Kim s former life as a schoolteacher hadn t prepared her for arrest. She cursed and spit at the cops like a third-grader off his Ritalin until they d shoved her into the back of a cruiser. She screamed at me Look what they re doing How can you be so calm I m not calm. I just look that way when I m thinking. Still I was glad they drove her and the kids away quick. My family didn t need to see our house burn feel its heat against their faces as I do. Even from across the street warm as an autumn sunset. Light bulb filaments are tungsten - it takes a lot of heat to work that metal. Our shop wasn t exactly up to OSHA standards. No doubt a stormtrooper had knocked into something and .

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