%: Pig

e·ver·sion
1. the act or condition of being turned inside out.
2. the condition of being turned outward.

When I was a kid, there was a corner store down the street from my house, run by an old couple who got shot there one Friday evening. I didn’t see it, but I heard it, lying awake in bed. Shattered glass, three blasts, a scream, and sirens. I remember the sirens best.

Cam didn’t know that when he put the gun in front of me on the table. We were eighteen and the world was ours, or should have been. “It’ll be easy,” he said. “Worse comes to worst, you’ll have to shoot ‘im in the leg. Maybe take off a finger. I’ll be doing all the tough stuff.”

I shot the poor bastard’s finger off.

Cam told me later that I should have killed him – that way he couldn’t have pressed the silent alarm under the till with his knee. But Cam didn’t go away nearly as long as I did.

You get one chance to learn things the easy way, and one chance to learn them the hard way. So my question to you, kid, is this: are you willing to put that down and come quietly, or will we have to consider the latter option?