Down the Well by Joseph Blackhurst

Author:Joseph Blackhurst [Blackhurst, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9798988484318
Amazon: B0C7PN8D55
Goodreads: 176612085
Publisher: Joseph Blackhurst
Published: 2023-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

Expedition Notes

October 7, 2022 | 9:22 p.m.

The Lexington Circuit Courthouse was an expectedly blocky and unremarkable building. They must have taken the spiky pigeon repellant strips off the windows since Richie’s time.

All the floors hurt your knees so Sahar and I took the Rothacker v. Souers casefile out into the hall where there was a bench. It was Sahar’s idea. We divided the file in half with Sahar working from the complaint forward and me working from the dismissal backward. I had been able to find Souers’ answer online to use as an exhibit in Scott’s deposition, but otherwise the pleadings were unfamiliar. The bulk of the dispute had been over custody after the kidnapping charges were dropped, so there were a lot of loose-leaf exhibits related to the parents’ parenting history Sahar and I had to weed through.

“Have you seen this stuff before?” I said.

“Some of it,” Sahar said. “Scott mostly took care of the matter. I drafted our discovery responses, if I remember.”

“Gotcha.” A clerk poked their head out the door to the judge’s chambers and asked us what we were doing. I walked over to them to explain we were lawyers and had no intention to take anything out of the building. The clerk checked me up and down. “Next time stay in the library,” she said. “We don’t make copies of a lot of this stuff.” This is why I always dress nice.

“What’s your opinion of Sam? I don’t think we’ve ever talked about him,” I said to Sahar later on.

“Sam from the transcript? I think he’s lonely. Sweet. Definitely has some form of ASD. He’s the only sympathetic character in the whole thing.”

“Character?”

“Yeah. Like a play. But no one would pay to see it. The plot’s impossible to follow.”

I picked up the order of judgement. “Maybe they really are all made-up.”

I always read the last paragraph of judicial opinions first because they tend to give away the result and that way I know what the judge is building toward. “Have you seen the deposition transcripts?” I asked Sahar. “It says ‘having found all kidnapping claims moot, and in consideration of the evidence and transcripts now before the Court, Plaintiff’s motion to amend custody order is denied.’ I’m not seeing any transcripts here.”

Sahar flipped through her stack. “Nothing here either. The clerk did say they don’t make copies.”

Probably best I leave what Sahar did next out of the record.

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