A Very Short Story

A Very Short Story

All Rise

Aya Seddik
Second Year


* These lines tell of the defence given by a person accused in the courthouse. Here’s what he says:

“Your Honor please, you have to believe what I’ll say. It’s not my problem that I was born within a poor family, living in a poor neighborhood…and so on. People around me everywhere almost judge me according to my appearance and never according to what I really am. In other words, people are so superficial to think that I am poor from the inside as I appear to be from the outside. Here I have to say OBJECTION OVERRULED!! Here, your Honor, I have documented evidence that prove quite the reverse. First of all, I’m a University graduate and have been nominated for a scholarship, but because I’m poor, people stood against me and I never got to have it. I also work for a Department store; it’s not a high post, though I find it very sufficient for the time being. Moreover, my boss at work thinks I’ll be a successful man one day…he always retells this quote, ‘Just because you’re NOBODY today, that doesn’t mean you’re not going to be SOMEBODY someday’. And as I have people who believe in me, I have a lot of people who don’t…and that’s precisely what makes my life a living pain and agony…”
“Now, your Honor, I feel like my back is against the wall, nowhere to run and nobody I can reach. I’ll leave the matter for the jury to decide. I rest my case…”