Payback’s Bitch

Flash fiction

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The windows fog as the engine idles. She’s been sitting here in the cold. How much longer could they possibly be? How long to bail a crook out of jail?

Mavis doesn’t know. And to think the police had been inside her home just earlier this evening, filling out a stolen vehicle report. ‘Course they never gonna catch the thief, she groans inwardly.