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Hostile Witness
by
Rebecca Forster
 
For Steve
 
Copyright © by Rebecca Forster 2004
All rights reserved
Cover design by True Blue Media
Published 2004 by Signet Fiction
 
 
Today California buried Supreme Court Justice, Fritz Rayburn. Governor Joe Davidson delivered the eulogy calling the judge a friend, a confidant, and his brother in service to the great state of California. The governor cited Fritz Rayburn as a man of extraordinary integrity who relentlessly pursued justice, continually uplifted those in need and, above all, protected those who were powerless.
It was a week ago today that Judge Rayburn died in a fire that swept through his Pacific Palisades home in the early morning hours.
No formal announcement has been made regarding who will be appointed to fill Justice Rayburn’s position, but it is speculated that Governor Davidson will appoint Rayburn’s son, Kip, to this pivotal seat on the California Supreme Court.
KABC News at 9 O’clock
 
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“Strip.”
“No.”
Hannah kept her eyes forward, trained on two rows of rusted showerheads stuck in facing walls.  Sixteen in all.  The room was paved with white tile, chipped and discolored by age and use. Ceiling.  Floor. Walls. All sluiced with disinfectant. Soiled twice a day by filth and fear. The fluorescent lights cast a yellow shadow over everything. The air was wet.  The shower room smelled of mold and misery.  It echoed with the cries of lost souls.
Hannah had come in with a bus full of women. She had a name, now she was a number. The others were taking off their clothes. Their bodies were ugly, their faces worn. They flaunted their ugliness as if it were a cruel joke, not on them but on those who watched.  Hannah was everything they were not. Beautiful. Young. She wouldn’t stand naked in this room with these women. She blinked and wrapped her arms around herself. Her breath came short. A step back and she fooled herself that it was possible to turn and leave.  Behind her Hannah thought she heard the guard laugh.
“Take it off, Sheraton, or I’ll do it for you.”
Hannah tensed, hating to be ordered. She kept her eyes forward. She had already learned to do that.
“There’s a man back there. I saw him,” she said. 
“We’re an equal opportunity employer, sweetie,” the woman drawled. “If women can guard male prisoners then men can guard the women. Now, who’s it going to be? Me or him?”
The guard touched her. Hannah shrank away.  Her head went up and down, the slightest movement, the only way she could control her ............

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