Octobers Children Pilot
Audrey Willowbrook for Victoria Beaumonte
an intentionally cruel, middle-aged police captain with a smug voice,
It’s a prank. Listen. One of us is an officer of the
law with more years of experience than she’d like
to admit and an encyclopedic knowledge of her
community. The other is a college drop-out
with a penchant for bad coffee and a frankly
scandalous browser history. Now. Let me hear
you say it’s a prank call.
(smiling viciously)
Do you want to tell me it’s a prank and
apologize for wasting my time, or do you
want me to tell Odette you’ve been slacking
off and wasting taxpayers’ dollars? I mean,
if you really want, I could even look up your
parents, tell them they’ve raised a delinquent
who spends their time looking up—
Excellent. I’ve always admired your work ethic.
Now, I am going to head home. And you, you’re
going to finish your shift and forget all about
this. There’s no use in getting worked up over something that never even happened. Is there?