ONE HUNDRED WORDS: A SERIAL

“Another Vice” by J. King Artworks, 2023.

ONE

Damon Beckett had won the genetic lottery.

He knew—he knew!—he was Hartford’s most handsome, strapping churchgoer. Moneyed attorney for Baker, Beckett, Wolfe, and Schwartz LLP. One of St. Patrick – St. Anthony’s elite donors. Age 44, 6’3”. Alan David navy blue suit (custom, of course). Beside him in his preferred pew: lovely wife Kate, 42; two prized children: Ava, nine, and Noah, six.

Damon’s charisma dazzled important men and impressionable women. But 10:00 am Sunday mass was family time, his time, until 2 p.m. His phone, always powered off now: no calls, no texts, absolute.

Especially not from Jessica.