HE WASN'T WORTH THE THOUGHT, SCREAMED CITIZENS UNITED — A WASTE OF AIR. But what do you expect from a logic-bound channel? Meanwhile, the Anti-Capital Punishment Co-op was mobilizing. It promised to deliver at least 800 for the vigil. The rest would be up to me. Independent Intel gave me thought-time to launch a public appeal for volunteers. And I got in touch with everyone I knew — long-lost relatives, friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, work colleagues. Some blocked me. Some said yes, then quietly renegged. Others — who I thought I could rely on — said no. My own sister refused. She said to me: “He’s been found guilty, Caro, by the greatest Minds in Salvation.” “Well, they’re wrong. He’s innocent.” “They’re never wrong. They’re the Minds.” But he told me even the Minds aren’t perfect. Stray thoughts, after all, bits of faulty logic happen even to the best of us. He was innocent. I'm sure he was innocent. He had to be innocent. I knew him so well — how could we have s...
Fighting Entropy One Story at a Time.