Justified: Five Stories

By César Bensetieis

The courts closed their cases. They didn't.

Five noir stories about ordinary people who stop waiting for help to come.

No serial killer, no movie vigilante: the ordinary machinery of impunity. A complaint on file, a call that is never returned, an attacker who sleeps just fine. Up against it, people like anyone else: a father, an office worker, a brother, an entire neighborhood. And a fifth man with no case and no attacker: nobody ever did anything to him. Nothing specific. That is exactly the problem.

Inside this collection:

A six-year-old girl doesn't sleep anymore; the case is closed; her father starts writing down schedules.An entire story written in the second person: you are the one walking home at night, along the route you know by heart.Law-abiding neighbors start a group chat, then a patrol. Nobody wants to miss their turn.An entire case told through exhibits numbered by hand, by someone who is not a cop.

Here, violence costs what it costs in real life: your body, your nerves, your conscience. Five crossings, five different reckonings. And no judge left in these stories: that leaves you.

For readers who tell themselves they would never go that far. Especially them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7RHTK2H
• ISBN13: 9798185818404
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"