Open up the newspaper or find a crossword puzzle online and choose one of the clues to use as inspiration for your writing.

45 (Down) Public Disorder

The cuffs chafed her wrists raw. Yet she continued to struggle and scream. They didn’t understand, none of them did. She was right, she had always been right. But no one believed her. The owner of the boardwalk restaurant she was being arrested at called the police on her for being a nuisance. Now she was going to be charged for being a public disorder.

And he continues to walk around, unpunished.

Life wasn’t fair. But she was going to make sure everyone knew what he did. It was what he deserved.

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