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    By JL Civi

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    Imagine a world where call center agents can blacklist unruly customers.
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    A world where any edit made to an online encyclopedia comes true.
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    A world where search engine results contain the secrets to the universe.
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    A world where even screenwriters struggle to get out of jury duty.
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    A world that is more than just the title of a Pixies song in need of disambiguation.

    Part of the DUTY CALLS series of juror backstories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJL Civi
    Release dateMay 31, 2019
    ISBN9780463397817
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    JL Civi

    Music aficionado and author of the rock and roll time travel novel Timely Persuasion.

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      Debaser - JL Civi

      DEBASER

      A Duty Calls Juror Story

      by JL Civi

      Copyright © 2019 JL Civi

      All rights reserved.

      Published by TOWFORM

      Learn more at www.JLCIVI.com

      ABOUT DUTY CALLS

      DUTY CALLS IS a tale about jury duty.

      More accurately, it’s a tale inspired by jury duty.

      Back in 2008 I was a juror on a two-month trial. One thing I learned is that even though a trial lasts two months, the jury isn’t actually doing two months worth of work. There is a lot of waiting. Way more waiting than anything else.

      Waiting in the hallway. Waiting in the cafeteria. Waiting in the lounge. After a week or so you start looking for ways to pass the time during the numerous recesses or the ninety minute lunch breaks. So you hang out with your eleven partners in justice (plus alternates) and talk about anything and everything with the exception of the trial. That topic was off limits, but nothing else was.

      All that time spent chatting with my fellow jurors gave me an idea for a different kind of jury story. One where the case is the least important aspect — maybe even a non-existent aspect. Create twelve characters. Give each one a featured flashback of their life outside of jury duty. Put them in the waiting rooms of justice to kill the boredom by shooting the shit. And give them a mystery to solve that requires teamwork.

      These flashbacks form a series of loosely connected short stories set in the same universe. They can be read

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