Even his corny front door, trimmed with the brown leatherette and brazen tacks, causes a vomiting reflex. The dim brazen door-plate mocks – ‘J.R. Invulnerable, Jr. Claims, appeals, statements, complaints. Fast Legal Assistance.’ Fast… Yes! I don’t demur. Today I’ll do this fast!
He is sitting at the huge oaken writing-table. The tiny man and the huge writing-table… The ugly wicked spider is waiting for his booty to ambush.
‘Do you need to compose a document or an answer to it?’ – his voice was soft like purring, and I’ve suppressed a vomiting reflex again.
‘I want to compose a complaint.’
‘Do you know my price?’
‘Yes.’
Yes, I know your price, you sick bastard… It’s tears, woe, broken dreams…
‘OK! Who is your object?’
‘You. I want to compose a complaint about you. The ideal complaint, without flaws. This complaint must be the best complaint that you can write!’
His look is turbid like moonshine. He hasn’t understood the task. Maybe my wording has been vague. I should use clearer terms.
‘Fast, scumbag! Write! You are fast, legal assistance aren’t you?’ – My S&W winks at him…
‘What should I write?’
‘Truth. Only truth. About your unscrupulousness, corruptibility… How you neglect morality for the sake of a few lousy coins every day… How you disowned yourself from our saintly oath… How your mendacious documents are destroying the basic principles of our fraternal society…’
He is writing… writing… writing. I wait.
‘What now?’
‘Gobble this!’ My S&W wishes him a good appetite.
He puts white sheets of paper into his mouth and starts to masticate. He doesn’t understand. He doesn’t understand still…
I’m leaving this room with that tiny breathless body at that huge table. I didn’t touch him – not even a finger. The poison of his libels was enough.
The dribble of toxic, ink saliva runs down from his mouth to the expensive smuggled parquet…
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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