We think of truth as stable, stationary, and straightforward. We understand that sometimes we may have to search for it but we think of it as standing still, in a quiet place - and all we have to do is find it.
But here, in this unfolding story, truth is a trickster, playing hide-and-seek with us, raising doubts at every turn, evading our grasp. A client comes to a lawyer with a story. Is he telling the truth, or is he trying to enlist the lawyer's skill in a dishonest enterprise? We keep changing our minds as fact after fact emerges. We walk with the lawyer through a tangle of mind-boggling ambiguities - and at the end, where are we? You decide!
About 11,000 words long.