Why’d you do it?

I didn’t do it!

Three people say they saw you do it.

They lied!  All four of them!

Three.

Oh, yeah, three.

You confessed to the arresting officer that you did it.

All cops are liars.

Suppose you could do it again.  Would you?

Well, sure.

Richard Pannbacker is a retired biochemist/teacher/sheepfarmer living in Manhattan, Kansas. He is the winner of the 22nd Annual “Kansas Voices” fiction contest and has had stories accepted by Fifty-Word Stories, The Bad Futurist, Daily Flash: 2012, Subtle Fiction, Writers Amuse Me and The Right-Eyed Deer.