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Jonathan Burgess

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Retribution: A Detective Tom Blake short story

Submitted to Contest #151

Ex-boxer Albert Townsend led a pretty solitary existence. He'd been alone ever since his wife died of a heart attack in 1991. Some thieving teenager barged her over onto the concrete walkway outside their council flat on the Heath Hayes estate, Stoke and robbed her purse containing her pension money. The authorities never caught the heartless kid who, if he was still breathing, would now be in his mid-forties. One Friday afternoon, whilst sat on the toilet in the working men's club on the estate, Albert overheard two scrotes discussing ...

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