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What happens after you die?
The sandbag swung to the side and rotated some as my left hook struck home, the chains holding it aloft clinking against each other as it spun. I followed with a left jab, a right cross, one more clean punch fr...
2025-02-17 18:30:01 +0000 UTC
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I waited at the morgue for as long as I was able, watching emergency responders bring bodies in from last night’s inferno. But despite how badly I wanted to have an answer, regardless of whether it meant good ne...
2025-02-10 18:30:02 +0000 UTC
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[CONTENT WARNING | I am not going to provide a more specific, accurate content warning for this chapter. That would spoil the contents. Just... this is one of the two chapters that I cried while writing.]
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Seventee...
2025-02-03 18:30:02 +0000 UTC
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[Content Warning: pettiness, panic, and fox nibbles]
“Well this is a fine little pickle we’ve found ourselves in,” I murmured, poring over the assembled documents on counsel’s table.
“What’re we thinking?” Julio asked, eyes roaming the juror profiles we’d ...
2025-01-23 18:30:01 +0000 UTC
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[Content Warning: the type of racism that "polite society" allows to exist because it's unobtrusive]
“How much longer is this going to take?” Fatima quietly groused, giving the contractor’s attorney the evil eye as he questioned the eleventh potential juror of twenty-four. “W...
2025-01-20 18:17:20 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody;
So, as a slight confession... I really didn't expect people to sign up, let alone so quickly.
I also didn't expect to have quite a few people tell me in DM's "you are charging way too little for far too much, you really need to consider changing things up a...
2025-01-14 23:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The deposition of Leslie King was not the last time we put the screws to somebody for this case. Another trio of depositions followed, along with being present to help with Mr. Arroyo’s deposition defense. But there was only so much to be done before we fi...
2025-01-14 04:48:53 +0000 UTC
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[Content Warning — racism & general, nonspecific bigotry]
Three months had passed since that day in the conference room, since the moment Destiny Banks crushed the defendants’ hopes of a quick, if costly, settlement.
Throughout those three months, I’d sat down w...
2025-01-14 04:46:29 +0000 UTC
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[Content Warning — Racism, sexism, and classism]
Service of process was made to all named defendants on June 15th. That set the deadline for all defendants’ responses as July 6th, assuming none of them decided to just let it run late and pay whatever fine the judge mandated. Or, ...
2025-01-14 04:45:44 +0000 UTC
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[Content Warning — N/A, unless you count the pyromaniac foxgirl]
“Hero, thank goodness you’re here! Your objective is to breach the building and handle all the bad guys! You’ve only got three minutes, so make every second count!”
Whatever voice they used for ...
2025-01-14 04:45:01 +0000 UTC
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[Content Warning — microaggressions that become macroaggressions]
I gave Julio and Fatima the rest of the week to handle other cases on their respective dockets. Realistically speaking, Julio should’ve been the one summarizing the interview into an affidavit and ensuring we had a...
2025-01-14 04:43:49 +0000 UTC
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[CONTENT WARNING — Traumatized people still discussing traumatic events]
“What happened after you arrived on the scene?”
My question hung in the air for longer than was comfortable. Barricade said nothing for a good ten seconds. He just sat there, staring at...
2025-01-14 04:41:33 +0000 UTC
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[CONTENT WARNING — Traumatized people discussing traumatic events]
The last week of May arrived before our chance to sit down with Barricade came around on the calendar, and realistically, I wasn’t surprised. To give a better idea of the time frames involved here, Mrs. Banks had ...
2025-01-14 04:40:26 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to my Patreon!
Readers of Foxfire, Esq. can join as members of the Amicus tier for access to another 4 weeks' worth of chapters. As of now (January 14, 2025), patrons can read up to Chapter 14. Chapter 15 will release on Jan20, and Chapter 16 on Jan27, at which point w...
2025-01-14 04:34:00 +0000 UTC
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