Short stories tagged with Justice
Listing 18 stories.
A judge notorious for his harsh rulings finds himself conflicted when his beloved daughter begs him to save her criminal husband.
In the near future, an investigative journalist interviews several key players in the rise of a genetic enhancement drug that has made predominantly white Americans Black.
In a hospital that is divorced from a concrete time or place, a head trauma patient struggles to recover his memory after being accused of a violent string of murders.
Three patrol officers patrol high-speed highways in North America for 11 months out of the year, resolving crashes and maintaining order while on patrol missions. During a patrol, they track down and take down a dangerous criminal.
Days after announcing an invention that will change the fabric of his futuristic world, an inventor goes missing and two detectives must find out where he is and what his supposedly groundbreaking invention was.
In Jim Crow North Carolina, a Black man new to town inadvertently becomes witness to a relationship between the town priest and a seventeen-year-old seminary student, and must stand trial when the priest is accused of statutory rape.
In a dystopian Toronto where genetically modified humans form the upper class, a young woman goes in search of answers after she discovers that her newly-changed friend has been murdered.
As a man waits in jail for the next stage in his journey through the justice system, he lives through visions of what the justice system could be in parallel universes, only to wake up and realize he can only exist in one system.
Guilt catches up to the wife of an abusive but talented black comedian fifty-four years into their marriage, causing her to reevaluate her devotion during his 2010 comeback show in Los Angeles.
A schoolmarm attempts to teach a group of men about justice, time, and irony in a repurposed saloon after they vote to have her hung for her disciplinarian ways.