“Custom and Practice” by Ian Randall Wilson

A story by alum Ian Randall Wilson (poetry, ’02) appears at Hollywood Dementia:

The legal case all hinged on a semicolon. Any fool could see it, and Champs was no fool. Not at $1,750 an hour and a big retainer. Why didn’t he see it?

It wasn’t as if one word glittered more than another, obscuring what was true. His hand trembled with that telltale shake, but he could still read. It was a matter of outcomes. Clients paid for them. Lawyers produced them. One way or another.

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