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How Do You Plea? [FICTOID]
“Your honor?”
“Richard…”
“Your honor…”
“Richard?”
“I…I want to confess.”
“You haven’t been accused.”
“I need to confess.”
“What have you done?”
“Nothing…yet…”
“Well, what are you going to do?”
“I don’t know…but it will be awful…”
“Can’t you simply not do it?”
“I don’t know…I don’t think so.”
“Do you want to do it?” …a long pause… “Richard? Richard? Look at me: Do you want to do it?”
“…no…”
“Have you no control over this?”
“…no…”
“Can you choose what your offense will be?”
“Yes.”
“So what do you want me to do?”
“I want you to sentence me…now…before I do it.”
“So you’ll have permission to commit the crime, before actually doing it?”
“Yes.”
“And the crime, will it fit the punishment?”
“No. It will be what it will be, regardless of how severe or how lenient your sentence. So please, sentence me. Let me know what I must do!”
“Very well, I sentence you to life imprisonment for the crime of suicide.”
© Buzz Dixon
