Monday, January 19, 2026

"There are always dead bodies," a more senior

  Coroner was explaining to a wide audience about his profession.  

  The world's eye on protests had brought a generic potential-to-see-truths to many locales.  People with histories of gathering facts for newspapers, the legal system, and works of writing and art milled about on the periphery of what was largely and loosely being called disturbing the peace. 

  "Disturbing the peace doesn't explain this." A woman held up photographs of various bodies on the ground.  "And, these."  People turned from the Crime Scene Investigators still prepping supplies and gathered around the woman with dark undereyes and skin seeming to slip away from bones.



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"There are always dead bodies," a more senior

  Coroner was explaining to a wide audience about his profession.     The world's eye on protests had brought a generic potential-to-see...