He forced her retirement.

She used to love writing. He mocked her stories, told her he paid her to edit, not write drivel.

His words ate her confidence and she stopped writing.

For a while.

Bookkeeping will soon discover a theft. She’s left plenty of writing behind to implicate him.

Sharon Gerger is about to retire. She will not be committing any crimes on her way out the door. Her writing appears here and there, in print and on the internet.