Psychological Thriller 18+

Guilty

by Steven

The law cleared him. The dead did not.

Officer Tom Walker is a good policeman with sixteen years on the job, a wife who loves him and a daughter who draws on the walls. One night, at the end of an alley, he sees a boy reach into his pocket. He fires twice.

The boy is sixteen. The object in his hand is a can of spray paint. The review board clears Tom within a month, and everyone moves on.

But Tom cannot. A thin boy in a gray sweatshirt begins to stand across the street, at the end of corridors, on the bus. He never screams and he never accuses. He only looks. And the more Tom searches for the truth about that night, the less the official story holds.

A story about a man the law declared innocent, a mother who will not stop asking, and a truth that comes too late.

Contains a police shooting of a teenager, grief and suicide. 18+.

15 sections · about 59,000 words · about 4 hours to read