The Correction

A paroled man’s copy of his court order is one sentence shorter than the court’s, and your clerk number certified it.

procedural · patient · exact · uneasy · Medium, about 30 scenes

You play

Rowan, Rowan, forty-eight, deputy clerk 114 in the Bellwether County records annex for twenty-three years, running the move to Route 9 and applying to be records supervisor there

How it begins

The man at the records counter had brought his own copy of the order, and he laid it down beside the court's without a word. Same case, same judge, same date in June 2013. The court's page two ran one sentence longer than his. He had lost his appeal on that sentence, and served fourteen years.